Em

“It's very arresting, happiness. You should know that I'm someone who appreciates the subtleties of human experience.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“Age, then, is not something that can be understood; it is a preoccupation of the old, and the old is anyone older than oneself.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

“Gratitude only emphasized the depth of your lack, so she tried to hide it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“At times a person will make eye contact with Marianne, a bus conductor or someone looking for change, and she’ll be shocked briefly into the realisation that this is in fact her life, that she is actually visible to other people. This feeling opens her to certain longings: hunger and thirst, a desire to speak Swedish, a physical desire to swim or dance.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People