Emily

“The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.”
― Michel Faber, Under the Skin

“Is it so hard for you to give up what you never had?”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“And so Shin’s misery never skidded into complete hopelessness. He had no hope to lose, no past to mourn, no pride to defend. He did not find it degrading to lick soup off the floor. He was not ashamed to beg a guard for forgiveness. It didn’t trouble his conscience to betray a friend for food. These were merely survival skills, not motives for suicide.”
― Blaine Harden, Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

“Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.”
― Michel Faber, Under the Skin