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“Ella siguió hablando, pero yo no la escuchaba ya. Sentí cómo después de decir, "nosotros también" quería estar en ese mismo instance con mi madre, teletransportarme, desaparecer - cualquier cosa -, pero estar junto a ella. Rebobinar ese verano como una cinta y volver al día en que vino - gorda y bajita - a recogerme en la escuela por su cumpleaños. Desodiarla y decirle que tenía unos ojos preciosos antes de que ella me lo preguntara.”
― Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes

“Eventually she looked down at her empty hands and thought: Damn it. Damn it, I love him. Then, after the smoke cleared, she could see nothing else.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Empires have fallen like this, he thinks, but it only makes him want her more, makes him look at his hands and think, My god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding her. What a waste, and then he says aloud, JesusfuckingChrist what have you done to me? And she says, Kiss me.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether