Daph

“No, no I've failed enough at other people's things I've done enough of other people's damage from now on I'm just going to do my own, from now on I'm going to fail at my own”
― William Gaddis, J R

“Fear and guilt are sisters;”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Three days
(so I hear)
she is without food,
keeps her body
pure of bread, longs to
run herself aground
in a sad secret death.

Is it a god inside you, girl?”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden