Myriam

“she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“On occasion in the past, in moments of inexplicable transport, in my study, perhaps, at my desk, immersed in words, paltry as they may be, for even the second-rater is sometimes inspired, I had felt myself break through the membrane of mere consciousness into another state, one which had no name, where ordinary laws did not operate, where time moved differently if it moved at all, where I was neither alive nor the other thing and yet more vividly present than ever I coud be in what we call, because we must, the real world. (...) Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it.”
― John Banville, The Sea