Beth

“Because—as I’d discovered—loneliness is not a function of company, but rather it is a consequence: an unpleasant symptom of a needy state of mind that desperately seeks to extract happiness from a source outside itself.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“There’s nothing like a blood-curdling hymn to make you feel at home,”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Of course we lose them, everyone we try to hold on to, the fates disdain us, make us small, pathetic. When we cry for people we’ve lost, it’s not out of sympathy, because of course we know that they’re free from pain at last. But still we cry. We cry because we’re alone again. We cry out of self-pity.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Thirst

“Laws are dangerous to everyone—innocent and guilty alike. No matter whether you believe yourself powerful or helpless. They have no human understanding in and of themselves”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune