Rachel

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just the same.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger