Sharayah

“He is breathless for the life he's entering into and I hope that he will not know pain or betrayal or disappointment, but of course he will, because he's alive and that's the price we pay”
― John Boyne, Water

“You never know when or where your first addiction might find you…but there’s a chamber of your heart that will have been waiting for it since the day you were born”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga #56

“It would be a sort of sick, insane thing to do, a way of mutilating my real life as a gesture of submission to an imagined future.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“The texture is what mattered. The feeling of the era, and what that feeling supposedly signified, isolates the nineties from both its distant past and its immediate future. It was a period of ambivalence, defined by an overwhelming assumption that life, and particularly American life, was underwhelming. That was the thinking at the time.
It is not the thinking now.
Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us. People played by the old rules, despite a growing recognition that those rules were flawed. It was a good time that happened long ago, although not nearly as long ago as it seems.”
― Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties