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José Saramago, Cain (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)

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"God is as close as the ceiling.

Though no one can ever know, I don't think he has a face. He had a face when I was six and a half. Now he is large, covering up the sky like a great resting jellyfish."

For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God, Anne Sexton

"Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen;

then I’d beg it to stop, and it would."

What the Living Do, Marie Howe

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This is like my dream. I’ve killed him before—over and over…

Do you remember me telling you how the faces of the men I killed came back and changed to Father’s face and finally became my own? He looks like me, too! Maybe I’ve committed suicide. 

—Eugene O’Neill, from Mourning Becomes Electra

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Emily Dickinson

“We dream—it is good we are dreaming— It would hurt us—were we awake— But since it is playing—kill us, And we are playing—shriek—”

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“He sleeps inside my soul And sometimes wakes up in the night And plays with my dreams.”

— Fernando Pessoa, published in “A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems”, VIII

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—Eduardo C. Corral, “Saint Anthony’s Cathedral” from Slow Lightning

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“Memory, origin of narrative; memory, barrier against oblivion; memory, repository of my being, those delicate filaments of myself I weave, in time into a spider’s web to catch as much world in it as I can. In the midst of my self-spun web, there I can sit, in the serenity of my self-possession. Or so I would, if I could.”

— The Scarlet House, Angela Carter

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The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison

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Mysterious Skin, Scott Heim

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my anhedonia is eating me alive so i’m making these mental illness memes to cope

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Daddy Issues, Katherine Angel

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Daddy Issues, Katherine Angel

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Maxine Kumin, ‘The Appointment’, from The Privilege