Mona Husseini

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall