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“The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don’t exist, and then your plans are meaningless.”
― Rachel Kushner , The Mars Room

“Her hand was like a bundle of chopsticks covered in a layer of tissue paper.”
― Peter Swanson, Her Every Fear

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.”
― Peter Heller, Celine