Cait

“...she really might have been ready, there and then, in that little corner, at the finest age of their lives, to help him understand what men live by”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

“She's far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abnormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality - however messy - is far more comprehensible”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“But now I accept being what I am, I have learned modesty. All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims - and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Question: how can one manage not to lose time?
Answer: experience it at its full length. Means: spend days in the dentist's waiting-room on an uncomfortable chair; live on one's balcony on a Sunday afternoon; listen to lectures in a language that one does not understand; choose the most roundabout and least convenient routes on the railway (and, naturally, travel standing up); queue at the box-office for theatres and so on and not take one's seat; etc.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague