Nicole

“When God gives you more than you can tolerate, you turn to instinct. And instinct is a force beyond anyone’s control.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“The climate has always been cruel; we’d be naive to expect mercy from something that doesn’t think or feel in the first place.”
― Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

“So, then, what was this life of mine? I was being consumed by my tendencies and then sleeping to repair the damage. My life was nothing but a repetition of this cycle. It was going nowhere.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“Fate works through us. We are ourselves contributors to fate and parts of the larger natural world governed by it.”
― John Sellars, Lições de Estoicismo: O Que a Filosofia Clássica Nos Pode Ensinar Sobre a Vida Moderna