Elisabeth Nolan

“He was worried because to be alive was to worry. Life was scary; it was unknowable. [...]. Life would happen to him, and he would have to answer to it, just like the rest of them. They all [...] sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“On passe notre vie à courir après le bonheur ou l'idée qu'on s'en fait. Parfois, on s'épuise en ramant vers ce qu'on veut, sans savoir que c'est loin d'être ce qu'il nous faut. C'est tellement plus doux, la vie, quand on se laisse entraîner par le courant plutôt que ramer à contresens.”
― Valérie Chevalier, La théorie du drap contour

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. [...] We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“If you are a person with mental illness, the challenge is to find the life that's right for you. But in truth, isn't that the challenge for all of us, mentally ill or not?”
― Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness