Ellen

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

“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

“The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds