Lois

“Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“What I am thinking now is that when things are very bad, maybe you climb the walls and go in circles and that is normal, but then gradually you widen the circles until you are out the door.”
― Jessica Grant, Come, Thou Tortoise

“In such a dreamy mood one may find one may well wound one's feet against sharp stones, forget to doff one's hat to distinguished persons, bid one's friends good morning in the middle of the night, and dash one's head against the first front door one comes to, because one had forgot to open it; in short, the spirit wears one's body like an ill-fitting garment that is everywhere too wide, too long, too uncomfortable.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena