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“Was that the point of suffering: to understand, in some way, what you still had? To clarify it, to rip the stars from the sky and hold them in the hand like diamonds‒to darken all the rest but the most glittering, glad memories? Was that the way to live a sunny life?”

Life Happiness Suffering Memories

Book:The Unfinished World and Other Stories

Source: The Unfinished World and Other Stories

“The donkey skin - burn it. But not until you find true love. You'll lose your chance at love forever if you shed you skin too soon.”

Book:And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

“She almost wishes for another love affair, sometimes, just to be able to end it. Just to feel that door close once more. Would that be true love ? The relief of loneliness, replayed forever and ever ?”

Love Loneliness Breakup Aloneness

Book:And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

“This is love for me, she said. I am not a good woman, she said. I am the end of all things, she said. This was at the beginning. He shook his head. You are life, he said, and I invite you in.”

Love Acceptance Self Hatred

Book:The Unfinished World and Other Stories

Source: The Unfinished World and Other Stories

“Other people just possess you, she'd told her friend, the butcher. Is that so bad ? he'd asked. To be possessed ? It's the worst fate of all, she'd say. The donkey skin, she thought, was everything else in the world; it was solitude : anonymous, bloody, and happy ever after.”

Happiness Solitude

Book:And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

“Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.”

Pain Happiness Suffering Depression Melancholy Numbness

Book:And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

“Lavoisier's wife surely could have used a barf emoji, had she ever looked up the origin of 'helpmeet' and shared it with Charlotte Corday. Lavoisier's wife's text: Can you even f**king believe this s**t? (Barf emoji here) Lavoisier's wife's text back from bff Corday: OMG OF COURSE GENESIS, WTF”

Genesis Emojis Entomology Barf Barf Emoji

Book:And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges