“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.”
— Octavia E. Butler, book Imago
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter II, “Exile” section 9 (p. 649)
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