Autumn

“I’ll tell you what, Howard said, you only need to know one thing. Something ol’ Forrest knows. That’s you gotta hit first, hit with everythin’ you got, and then keep hittin’ until the man is down, and then you hit him some more. Jack nodded. Many men, Howard said, like the idea of fightin’ but very few likes to get hit. You can make a man wanna quit real quick with that first shot. A good straight left into the nose bone and most will let it be. A man who likes to get hit is the one to watch out for.”
― 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

“Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: The Complete Works PergamonMedia

“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