Britt Dvorak

“Because every day when I wake up, the clouds gather, a little darker each day, and I feel less and less equipped to do anything about them. To go anywhere. To make a change. To speak more than the occasional sentence. So I go to the bookstores. I do not want to speak and I do not want to be spoken to. I find it hurts my ears. My head. My skin. And people are quiet in bookstores. I like the anonymous, mute companionship of my fellow browsers.”
― Juliann Garey, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves