Michelle

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

“In truth, we will only perform any action a certain number of times, and to know that can never be helpful. There is, in my opinion, no use in demanding to know the number, in demanding to know upon waking the number of boxes to be ticked off every single day. After all, why would it help to be shown the mathematics of things, when instead we could simply imagine that whatever time we have is limitless.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Every couple, I think, enjoys its own mythology, recollections like note cards to guide you around an exhibition…”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“I just mean, a story can be beautiful not because of the way it ends. But because of the way it’s written.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People