Janine

“There are no words from this world for the entrance into the Darkness, no words for the last bite.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

“Her father's hands, holding the chopsticks, were slightly unsteady - something she had first noticed years ago when he took her out to lunch, but tonight, it made her heart clench and tremble.”
― An Yu, Braised Pork

“All of my joys have been pulled out of my mouth like teeth. All my home is nothing but sadness and silence and ruin and memory. I have been reduced, I am my own ghost, all my own beauty and youth have shrilled away, there are no illusions of happiness to impel me. Life is a prison of poverty and aborted dreams, it is nothing but a slow progress to my place beneath the soil.”
― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others -- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion...All I ever wanted was to know *this* world.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things