Ana Gor

“I don’t really know how to say it, but it’s like something’s wrong, all the time, and I can’t do anything to stop it. It’s always there. When I’m at home, when I’m at school. But things can be good sometimes. Really good. Like when I’m talking to you or writing letters. Those things are really good for me. Then I start feeling like everything’s okay. And that makes me happy. But know what? That feeling like everything’s wrong and this feeling like everything’s okay, I guess a part of me wants to believe that neither one of them is, like, natural . . . I guess I want to feel like they’re both exceptions to the rule. I mean, I almost never feel like everything’s okay, but just because most of my life feels wrong doesn’t mean that’s how I want it to be. There’s a part of me that doesn’t feel like anything is wrong or okay. Just normal. That’s the part of me I like, the normal part.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“И тут я поняла, что все или всё давно прошедшее от нас не ушло, а пребывает лишь в непрерывной стадии отмирания, если мы только не говорим о могильных надгробиях за сельской церквушкой, но это уже другие дела.”
― Джон Хоукс, An Irish Eye

“When every possibility is taken away then we have sinned." The idea seemed to radiate throughout Hawtorne's work, and I could connect the novels and stories by this black Cristianity, by the impulse in them for nightmare - by what was almost their desire for nightmare. For to imagine a nightmare is to put it at one remove. And I found a statement by Hawtorne which helped to explain his method: "I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mindwas concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spiritual mechanism of the faery legend should be combined with the characters and manners of everyday life.”
― Peter Straub, Ghost Story