Abby

“I started to walk around the room, dazed with pain. I had no idea what to do with myself. I couldn’t imagine how I was going to dispose of my body in space and time, every minute of every day, for the rest of my life. I didn’t understand how he was okay with never seeing me again,”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“It's hard for a man to get out of his own way.”
― Sofia Montrone, Nymph

“Once I stopped being angry, I’d have to start being sad. I wanted to feel only that my friends were terrible, careless people. I knew that they loved me. People who love you do not, however, exclusively behave in your best interest. Still, in the whole time we’d been friends, none of us had ever acted with the express purpose of hurting each other.”
― Sonia Feldman, Girl's Girl

“Illness, insanity and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all of my life.”
― Edvard Munch