Carmen VG

“As a young man, I had the feeling that since the death of my parents I’d been leading another life – the wrong life. Even more than my siblings, I wondered to what extent the events of my childhood and adolescence had defined me, and it was only very late that I understood that I myself am the sole architect of my existence. This is what I am when I allow my past to influence me, and conversely, just as much when I resist it. And all I have to do is thinks of the moments with Alva and my children in order to understand that this other life, the one in which I have now left such clear traces, cannot be wrong anymore.
Because it’s mine.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Life is not a zero‐sum game. It owes us nothing, and things just happen the way they do. Sometimes they’re fair and everything makes sense; sometimes they’re so unfair we question everything. I pulled the mask off the face of Fate, and all I found beneath it was chance.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Grief is only ever yours and so is guilt. It’s not something you can share.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“But I knew better than to think that the world was fair, that for every take there would be a give.”
― Megan Miranda, The Perfect Stranger