Ivy Eriks

“Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Informers

“Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped. Then there was a short period when you weren't with anybody, then another woman arrived, and you ate with her and fucked her, and it all seemed so normal, as if you had been waiting just for her and she had been waiting for you. I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women