Holly Dolan

“confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred,”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“To remember that God is not the nice man Jesus, who liked everybody and went around healing the sick; that God is, on the contrary, the one who makes people sick, who condemns people to death, for incomprehensible reasons.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking