Agnes

“God, what a short life the bullet has
compared to the wound.”
― Clementine von Radics

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Emotional issues, more like, ' Jeb said. 'You know women. Stray cats, all of them, either purring in your lap or pissing in your shoes.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”
― Margarita Karapanou, Rien ne va plus