Beth

“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

“Raders dealt with their own crud in Kansas countryside tradition: head down, dug in, doing whatever life called for next. Dealing with it in your own way and time, you’d eventually get over it. Or you wouldn’t, but other folks wouldn’t know you hadn’t.”
― Kerri Rawson, A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

“So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want.” A gloating expression. “The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“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