Tanja

“The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“What else is there for any girl to do, when everyone but her can just forget everything like a random bad dream?”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven