Pascale

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels

“This time he was going to fall apart silently.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels

“Can you imagine how lonely she must have felt when she received that phone call? Your lover has just died, your companion has abandoned you, but don't you dare make an inappropriate sound, because your family is around. No one to touch you the way he did, no one to understand you, no one to hug you to sleep, but don't dare allow your face to show a glint of grief. The cutting pain of feeling alone amid loved ones.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“I am a functioning human being. Mostly. Just so you don’t make too much fun of me, the mostly above refers to functioning, not to human being.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman