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"People love an idea, even if they don't know what to do with it. Even if they only know how to do exactly the wrong thing."

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"Was [it] trained to find you, or were you trained to be found?"

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"Putting language to something for which you have no language is no easy feat."

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"(...) abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something, and not care how they get it."

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity."

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"How many times had you said, 'If I just looked a little different, I'd be drowning in love'?"

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"The diagnosis never changes. We will always be hungry, will always want. Our bodies and minds will always crave something, even if we don't recognise it."

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"Every room can be a bedroom: you only need a bed, or not even that. You only need to sleep there. The inhabitant gives the room its purpose. Your actions are mightier than any architect's intentions."

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the political context in which she lives."

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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"In a lazy world, it is much less trouble to pronounce a subject dead than to look at what is required to rejuvenate and expand it."

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black

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"(...) what was once global now feels almost local."

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black

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"We cannot die as long as there are people on earth who remember us."

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black

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"The bereavement theory developed in the 1990s by the Dutch academics Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut suggests that grief works in two primary ways and we oscillate between them. Their 'dual process' model of grief defines these as 'loss-oriented' stressors, where we are focused on our pain, and 'restoration-oriented' coping mechanisms involving activities that distract us from it for a while. All we can hope for is that the periods of paralysing, overwhelming grief become less frequent. But living with loss is personal to all of us and has no predetermined path or timeline."

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black

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"(...) grief never dies."

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black

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"In those (...) small hours when the ghosts of a life visit for the last time..."

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black

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"Death works to her own timetable, not ours."

All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black