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The Dark Dark

Book by Samantha Hunt · 4 quotes · Loneliness, Dead Body, Death

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All Loneliness Dead Body Death Finding A Dead Body Foreignness Fragility Hanging Isolation Love Marriage Non Recognizing Recognition Sex Solitude Suicidal Suicide Suicide By Hanging

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“The more alone I get, the louder the world becomes.”

Loneliness Solitude

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“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm in a house made of glass.”

Love Sex Loneliness Isolation Fragility

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“I feel something foreign bloom between my husband and me, an intruder, a mold. I see my husband with eyes that don’t know him, as if he quite suddenly became a man from Brazil, or grew a beard, or started speaking in a southern accent. As if after eleven years of marriage he somehow had all of his secrets returned to him, made secret again.”

Marriage Recognition Foreignness Non Recognizing

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“We didn’t find him for three days because we didn’t realize he was missing. That’s the saddest part of this story. He’d hanged himself from a tree, one of several that grew in a small sliver of land between my parents’ house and the neighbors’, out by a swing set untouched for years. He timbered over like a sapling when my father cut him down, his body gone stiff.”

Death Suicide Suicidal Dead Body Hanging Finding A Dead Body Suicide By Hanging

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