Sophie Mode

“How could this have happened when everything was normal?”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO LOVE AND KISSES CHALES”
― J.D. Salinger, For Esmé—with Love and Squalor

“Something changed then. I saw my life in scale: it was just my life. It was not momentous, and only now did I recognize that it had once seemed so to me; that was while my father was watching.
I saw myself the way I'd seen the cleaning women in the building across the street. I was just one person in one window.
Nobody was watching, except me.”
― Melissa Banks, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing