GK

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“...I think the more
she has failed at things like relationships
and parenting, the more she has cut

herself off from feeling bad about those
things. And if you don't let yourself feel
bad, sooner or later you stop feeling

good, too. You insulate yourself. Build
up layers, like stacking paper, everything
growing heavier. And when the weight

becomes too much, those layers compress.
Become hard. Sad, really, to think that
Kristina has turned herself into cardboard.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“Obscurity is Japan's outermost defense. The country doesn't want to be understood.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet