+
+(Friendship Divorce)
+> _I wish you well
+> Couldn't you tell after all these years?
+> I wish you love
+> And life in a world that you're dreaming of_
+
+> This is the one that I had to write
+> It's like a letter of love with no love left out
+>
+> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
+
+> When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
+>
+> –Emile Zola
+
+> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
+>
+> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan
+
+> I have had the strength to live through it, I shall have the strength to write it down.
+>
+> —"The Husband I Bought" by Ayn Rand
+
+> _Can we all start over
+> After the final chapter's end?
+> When it all starts over
+> How do these scars begin to mend?_
+>
+> —_Centaurworld_
+
+
+> Because life is a gradual series of revelations
+> that occur over a period of time
+> It's not some carefully crafted story
+> It's a mess and we're all gonna die
+>
+> If you saw a movie that was like real life
+> You'd be like "What the hell was that movie about?"
+> It was really all over the place.
+> Life doesn't make narrative sense.
+>
+> —"The End of the Movie", _Crazy Ex Girlfriend_