Helen

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“To my own surprise, I was unable to accept the shame he wanted me to feel. It was too familiar to be imposed: I had produced it myself for such a long time that, right then, I found I had no space left for it anymore.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“This wasn’t distraction or entertainment: here was a book that seemed to have been written for me, which lifted me up into its realm and united me with something that seemed to have been there all along and that I seemed to be a part of. It felt as if the words and the thoughts of the narrator—despite their agony, despite their pain—healed some of my agony and my pain, simply by existing.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“just being perceived, all the time being perceived, was itself exhausting.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!