Amy Andersen

“Maybe that was the trick to life: to notice all the tiny moments in the day when everything else fell away and, for a split second, or maybe even a few seconds, you had no worries, only pleasure, only appreciation of what was right in front of you.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“The real tragedy is, of course, by always looking outward, by focusing so intently on the other person's experience, we lose touch with our own. It's as if we live our entire life pretending to be ourselves, as imposters impersonating ourselves, rather than feeling this is really me, this is who I am.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“We all think we have choices, and we do, but we’re flotsam too. At the whim of circumstance, the things inside us, something as irritating as chance.”
― Joe Hart, Where They Lie