faith

“You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you dig them out.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“She thought about nothing. Her mind was a blank tape, imprinted daily with snatches of things overheard, fragments of dealers' patter, the beginning of jokes and odd lines of song lyrics.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers