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“It's just strange," he agrees, staring out the window, lost. "One day someone's walking around, going to work, alive, and then..." Kimball stops, fails to complete the sentence.
"Nothing," I sigh, nodding.
“People just... disappear," he says.
"The earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, somewhat sadly, checking my Rolex.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn’t have. I wouldn’t have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself. And that’s what Daisy did, with that song. At least for me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“We stare at each other endlessly. I'm convinced she senses I'm about to say something. I've seen this look on someone's face before. Was it in a club? A victim's expression? Had it appeared on a movie screen recently? Or had I seen it in the mirror?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Someone once said that when you die of hypothermia, you get cold and sleepy, things slow down, and then you just drift away. You don’t feel a thing. That sounded nice. That was the best way to die—awake and dreaming, feeling nothing.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation