McKenna

“Strange things bloom where grief lives.”
― Bea Northwick, The Cruel Dark

“Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teenage years were a movie, they were more like an extremely depressing and directionless European art house film that goes on for ten hours with no logical character motivation.”
― Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

“The central cause [of gentrification] is that we’ve turned cities into capital-producing machines, and city governments have become addicted to this capital to function.”
― P.E. Moskowitz, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

“It’s remarkable what people become blind to when they’re in such darkness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen