Simone

“I'm a speckled seal swimming past the breakers, a seabird with a wingspan so long I can fly for miles. I'm the new moon, hidden and safe from him, from everyone.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Things might be theoretical, that was true. I may be imagining it all, but it still hurt. It was still sad to lose someone you loved.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands