Benedict

“Es sollte echt ein Wort für dieses Gefühl geben“, sagte sie. „So was wie Euphancholie. Einerseits zerreißt’s dich vor Glück, gleichzeitig bist du schwermütig, weil du weißt, dass du was verlierst oder dieser Augenblick mal vorbei sein wird ... Dass alles mal vorbei sein wird.”
― Benedict Wells, Hard Land

“I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Nobody is easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“One cliché attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely. If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive