Ellen

“Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly