Mackenzie

“Life is full of drowning people, ready and willing to drown you, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“There’s something about modernity and what we value now. Our shift in morality. Is there a general lack of compassion? Of interest in others? In connections? It’s all related. How are we supposed to achieve a feeling of significance and purpose without feeling a link to something bigger than our own lives? The more I think about it, the more it seems happiness and fulfillment rely on the presence of others, even just one other. The same way sadness requires happiness, and vice versa. Alone is . . .”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and with her in the grocery aisles on the weekends. It was there every night, in the dark, spectacular and sprawling in the quiet. And it all belonged to her.”
― Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories