Lucy Elizabeth

“I find it so bizarre that I occupy space, and that I am seen by other people. I feel like I am falling through space and Eleanor just threw me a rose.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“Her booming voice tells us all that is balding man is her best friend. Everyone who is watching them starts tearing up. She bellows that she cannot imagine being in a happier place than sitting beside him on their ratty sofa. The crowd coos in approval. She howls that she wants to grow old and gray beside him while he grows old and gray beside her.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“about most religions in general, my theory is that they came to be a solution to our existential dread. It's comforting to imagine that everyone who is dead is just waiting for us in the next room.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead