Katieliza

“There was something set apart about her. She seemed to always be listening. When she was reading, her face would be like the face of one listening to music. And when we asked her any question, why, she gave the answer, if she knew it-- not painted up and full of color and "maybes" and "it-might-bes" the way the rest of us would. We were always full of bull. There was some pure simple thing in Una.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ran out, I started stepping out to the convenience store to grab some snacks, the sort of junk food where it didn't matter if you ate it or not. Even so, I continued to put this food that didn't matter into my body that didn't matter, which made everything seem to matter even less. Every meal, if you could call it a meal, was like another dent in my existence. I couldn't summon the energy to prepare the easiest of foods, exhausted by even the simple act of boiling water.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“Maybe you've tumbled a world for me. And I don't know what I can build in my world's place. Lee said softly, "Couldn't a world be built around accepted truth? Couldn't some pains and insanities be rooted out if the causes were known?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt-- and there is the story of mankind. I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be what he is ... It is all there-- that start, the beginning.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden