emily

“But underneath that is another feeling, a feeling of being wide-eyed awake and watchful. It's like being wakened suddenly in the middle of the night, by a hand over your face, and you sit up with your heart going fast, and no one is there. And underneath that is another feeling still, a feeling like being torn open; not like a body of flesh, it is not painful as such, but like a peach; and not even torn open, but too ripe and splitting open of its own accord.
And inside the peach there's a stone.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“-La mort de Cedric Diggory a été un tragique accident, dit-elle d’un ton glacial.

-C’était un meurtre, répliqua Harry.

Il se sentait trembler. Il n’avait quasiment jamais parlé de cela à personne, encore moins à une classe de trente élèves qui le dévoraient les yeux.

-Voldemort l’a tué et vous le savez très bien.”
― J. K. Rowling

“In the room, Phoebe feels disappointed to return to the facts of her own life, to the night she will spend in the Roaring Twenties all alone. Not to mention, the life she will spend alone. And why does she do this? Why does she have a nice day with people, feel connected to them, and then, when alone, think only about the possible horrors of her isolation ahead?”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People