Katie Jackson

“I thought that if I did normal things—held down a job, for example—I could starve off the part of me that hated everything. If I had been a man, I may have turned to a life of crime.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“But at the exact same time I got nervous about that, I also got this other feeling, which I can only describe of as love for Annemarie's elevator.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“And gradually we will rot like old ships or trees

But keep Pain far from Me o Lord”
― Breyten Breytenbach, In Africa Even the Flies Are Happy

“I know that love is no cure, but rather the disease itself.”
― Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap