Ruth

“I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving. I do not want that. I will keep myself company.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“there are things you can't foresee, like the fog
a familiar song slips its tongue under the door of the dairy
it's him, Kuka the Hook, the village idiot”
― Rene Karabash, She Who Remains

“For a moment I had an inkling of what it might be like if instead of two people in the World there were thousands.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“He would understand, later, that there is a moment when your life must become your own; you must claim it from all the other stories you’ve been given, that have been handed down or thrust upon you, or that you’ve been left holding while someone else claimed theirs.”
― Anne Michaels