Autumn

“Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.”
― Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story

“The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know you have.”
― Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story

“The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.”
― Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story

“I looked so boring, lifeless, immune and unaffected, but in truth I was always furious, seething, my thoughts racing, my mind like a killer’s. It was easy to hide behind the dull face I wore, moping around. I really thought I had everybody fooled. And I didn’t really read books about flowers or home economics. I liked books about awful things—murder, illness, death.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen