Noelle

“People say she's gone mad, because that's what people who know nothing about loneliness call it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe