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“Once the world has been transformed into something meaningful, some feel they can die without regret. Others feel that they exist in a world without meaning, so what's the point of living? But where do these two sets of feelings converge? For Hanio, both paths led to the same thing: death.”
― Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

“Being a male fan of obscure old bands is, for some reason, more acceptable than being a female fan of a twenty-first-century boy band.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“Mostly we slept on our own beds but occasionally in the same one, not having sex but taking turns giving each other an arm-pillow, breathing in the scent of each other’s chests or armpits, slowly coming to believe that this was what it meant to love and be together.”
― Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

“Affection is the mortal illness of lonely people.”
― Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy