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“We’re all so small, and have such little time, unable to envision the majority of the world.”
-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
She didn't have the freedom to think of what was right. She must do what was safe. It was as Ampleforth had said: one had no choice, one must only live through it as if one had.
Sandra Newman, Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984
410 - BACKLASH Chapter 7: Survival
“once more” he said. “speak my name once more”. He was ancient i knew that. But in this moment he was just a boy—brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity “aleksander” his eyes fluttered shut “dont let me be alone”. And then he was gone