Dominique

“What else could have happened? Car wouldn't start? House caught on fire? Escaped convict climbed through his bedroom window and tied him with duct tape? Poison eggnog? Or maybe I just didn't matter to him.”
― Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa... but me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely th right time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before than, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar marks the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation