Annabel

“The sun was not yet fully overhead in the sky, and everything beautiful was all already ruined.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? [...] You don't choose each other, and there's no furtive period of getting to know each other. You're part of each other, right from the start.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“The stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. What I've done till now, what I'm going to do, they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore