Paula M

“You had every intention of being depressed forever, but as it turns out, there's work to be done, meals to eat, movies to see, errands to run. You meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that? Instead, you survived - apparently, you both did - and things are shockingly okay.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers