Sue

“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“For Zoe's entire life, all she wanted was love all-consuming, wrapped around her like cellophane, tight enough around so that she lost a little bit of oxygen and was able to fall asleep.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Candelaria

“The corpse does not come alive, indeed is not even saved, but it can pull the man down.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“That's okay. That's all right. He had treated life the way it should always be: long and short at the same time. He had tried so hard because he always felt guilty, but he also always felt hopeful. Naively hopeful. Foolishly so. But you had to be, he concluded, falling down into the snow, the wires in his legs smoking. You had to be.”
― Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Candelaria