Emily

“My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“I do not know what I will think tomorrow and later; today I feel no distinct emotion.”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce

“Trauma doesn't occur in a vacuum. You don't outgrow it with time. It grows with you, even if the growing goes all wrong. It's like breaking an arm and never putting it in a cast. You're bigger, but the bone is still broken. Maybe there's a throb of pain once in a while. You can't just stop using the arm. The more you use it the more it tears and contorts. You get clumsy. You break more limbs. Even if you see a doctor now, there's no going back to the beginning.”
― Sung Yim, What About the Rest of Your Life

“I concluded that my mind was so ordinary, which is to say empty, that I could never be anything but a reasonably good camera.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard