Bhaskar Em.

“Something broke in him that day. For the first time, he could see that his whole life added up to absolutely nothing.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Sometimes it seemed as if she spent half of her life crying.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time