Kayley

“All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. "Stop looking so superior!" my father sometimes used to shout at me when I was eating, watching television, or otherwise minding my own business. But this facial cast of mine (that's what I think it is, really, a way my mouth has of turning down at the corners, it has little to do with my actual moods) has worked as often to my favor as to my disadvantage.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

“Nobody dies of hysterics, though. They don’t matter. God gave woman hysterics as a relief.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels

“I am interested in disgust.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona