Anna

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Where are we? Where? Why, we’re here, of course, where we always are—each one of us locked in his or her here from the moment we’re born until the day we die.”
― Paul Auster, Baumgartner

“the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story is true or not?”
― Paul Auster, Baumgartner

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway