Bobby Crane

“If you have always been criticised, from before you can remember, it becomes more or less impossible to locate yourself in the time or space before the criticism was made: to believe, in other words, that you yourself exist.”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place

“I’m broken by my need for others. By the erotic dance of memory that pounces when loneliness falls.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Regret is a time machine to the past.
Worry is a time machine to the future.
Gratitude is a time machine to the present.”
― Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and I want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch