Irma Lich

“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“February dawn -- frost
on the path
Where I paced all winter.”
― Jack Kerouac, Book of Haikus