Michelle

“Life is never yours. You are just renting it out while the landlord in the sky ups the price until you can’t pay anymore”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“That is what I imagined life to be—one long sentence of waiting out the clock.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.”
― Marco Roth, The Scientists: A Family Romance