Annie

“Either, then, one is to live aesthetically or one is to live ethically.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“Was that what was so painful: that nobody had ever come so close to me- nobody had ever seen me, and come right up to me, and kept going, and looked into my eyes so seriously, with so little fear?”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I feel at such a loss for words but this is a new place, and new words are needed.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster