Grace Isadore

“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½

“We are all the same in that we all want to be different.”
― Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul

“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”
― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

“To live intensely is a basic human necessity.”
― Jessica Zafra, Twisted 8 ½