Zach Pack

“I was feeling everything much too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. I sat on terraces and stared for afternoons at mediocre views. I was feeling overjoyed for happy couples. I would see or hear about people, usually people I hardly knew or didn't even like, getting together, finding each other after so much groping, and I would feel bliss. I was blindsided by familiar things.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“I’m going to paint too. I’m going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?" asked Nothing.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King