Manuel Ramos

“A happy creature stops developing, so happiness is a product of being content and development is a product of discontent. Happiness, in other words, is a temporary glitch in evolution.”
― Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society

“Everybody comes to the library naked. That’s why they come here—to dress themselves in books.”
― Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society

“Living alone was frightening in that way. No one to police the spill of yourself, the ways you betrayed your primitive desires. Like a cocoon built around you, made of your own naked proclivities and never tidied into the patterns of actual human life. I”
― Emma Cline, The Girls