Jane

“They encountered a world, new to both of them, of unfathomable grief and suffering, that had long been buried in darkness.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“They left large areas of the paper blank because they felt empty space was as important as form, that absence was as important as presence.”
― Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

“It was comforting to have an animal, so consistently near and needy, to focus on, to nurture. Just to have another heart beating in the room, a live energy, had cheered me. I hadn’t realized how lonely I’d been, and then suddenly I wasn’t alone at all. I had a dog. Never again would I be alone, I thought. What a gift to have such a companion, like a child and protector, both, something wiser than me in so many ways, and yet doting, loyal, and affectionate.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands