Ash

“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

“You can sink a thing deep, weight it down with stones, but eventually, it will surface.”
― Jennifer McMahon, Dismantled

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka