Caroline Hall

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“I felt angry at first, because my husband kept texting, concerned, and his concern felt like judgment (it wasn’t), an accusation that I’d done something wrong (how I interpret most things).”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“Everyone was addicted to saying you went into a cocoon to grow wings and emerge as a beautiful miracle. But what no one ever mentioned was how the caterpillar’s body actually broke down inside the cocoon, turning to mush before its reconstruction. Sometimes the hardest part about your twenties was knowing what stage you were in: if you had been mush, were currently mushing down, or had mush yet ahead of you.”
― Frankie Barnet, Mood Swings: A Novel

“All her thoughts, feelings, and memories in the air mixed with all the thoughts, feelings, and memories of everyone else whose bones and brains had decayed, and maybe in some ways that was the weather. Everyone all together across the world, their happiness and disappointments jumbled together so that for their children the air became so thick it was difficult to breathe.”
― Frankie Barnet, Mood Swings: A Novel