Isabella

“Although often he feels he isn’t so much
living as he is merely existing, being moved through his days rather than
moving through them himself. But he doesn’t punish himself too much for
this; merely existing is difficult enough.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus