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Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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Jewish amulet for a married couple with an inscription in Judeo-Persian, Iran, ca. 1900

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Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal—less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard

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Anne Michaels, Held

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A broadcast about wolves, with recordings of their howls. What a language! The most heartrending I know, and I shall never forget it.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard

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If everything that will ever happen has happened, and is happening, at last I understand how it might be possible to fall in love at a glance, and know a stranger like a lover—perhaps already that love and all the events that followed were already unfolding elsewhere, and elsewhen.

Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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A monster, however horrible, secretly attracts us, pursues us, haunts us.

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard

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I’ve spent a lot of time understanding my own violence, which is not of the pussycat kind. There are people who could never commit murder. I am not one of those people.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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There are so many ways the dead show us they are with us. Sometimes they stay deliberately absent, in order to prove themselves by returning. Sometimes they stay close and then leave in order to prove they were with us. Sometimes they bring a stag to a graveyard, a cardinal to a fence, a song on the wireless as soon as you turn it on. Sometimes they bring a snowfall.

Anne Michaels, Held

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It was as if something was perpetually tugging her downward, toward the underworld, the mess, the dirt, and the filth, as if she was unable to feel disgust when others did and was overwhelmed by fascination instead.

Ia Genburg, The Details, tr. Kira Josefsson

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Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional

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I learned to listen for what wasn’t being said, because it was usually more important than what was.

Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm

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Abdulai Silá, The Ultimate Tragedy, tr. Jethro Soutar

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William Gay, Twilight

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[...] a forest of towering pine trees hung with blind white angels.

Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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good evening to everyone deranged over a piece of vampire media

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By playing her his music, he is putting himself in her hands.

Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos, tr. Michael Hofmann