Miki

“I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I saw her chewing gum, when I was thirteen, and I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“My love is a haunted house, a ghost possessing his own body, a fire that burns itself alive. A light almost too bright to look at, but I forced myself to look as long as I could.”
― Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth