Todd Elkins

“Pain is water, of a drowning kind. You waterboard awhile, come up for air, go back down. You’re afraid you’ll die, and then you’re afraid you won’t.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I’m an alcoholic who doesn’t (and doesn’t want to) drink anymore so I exist in a state of never-ending micro-addictions that reveal themselves in the form of obsessions.”
― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

“Wishing for love is the same as wishing for more wishes.”
― Mahvesh Murad, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“an indicative transposition like ‘I’m here But For the Grace of God’ is, she says, literally senseless, and regardless of whether she hears it or not it’s meaningless, and that the foamy enthusiasm with which these folks can say what in fact means nothing at all makes her want to put her head in a Radarange at the thought that Substances have brought her to the sort of pass where this is the sort of language she has to have Blind Faith in.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest