Natalia

“It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.”
― Alfred Jarry, Days and Nights: Novel of a Deserter