Celine

“Eigentlich gehörte sie zu einer Generation, deren turnschuh-tragenden und Sushi-essenden Vertretern schon der Besitz einer Hauskatze als unerträgliche Verantwortung erschien. „Haus bauen, Baum pflanzen, Kind zeugen“ war kein Glücksrezept mehr, sondern eine Horrorvision. Die Ewigpubertierenden wollten sich alles offen halten und wunderten sich dann über Orientierungslosigkeit.”
― Juli Zeh, Unterleuten

“Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones. Did I only worry about this question because as a woman I felt required to put the needs of others before my own? Was “kindness” just another term for submission in the face of conflict? These were the kind of things I wrote about in my diary as a teenager: as a feminist I have the right not to love anyone.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life