Edie

“Our contract with life is a contract that is brokered with fragility, and with sadness, and with anxiety. And if we’re going to authentically and meaningfully be in this world, we cannot focus on one dimension of life and expect that focusing on that dimension is going to then give us a well-rounded life.”
― susan david, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

“I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self-portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence. And they know such introspection, though painful, is secretly exhilarating. And if someone asks me the kind of question I myself might pose, I can tell he's lonely.”
― Young-Ha Kim, I Have The Right To Destroy Myself

“When people count on someone, the person they’re counting on doesn’t realise it. I mean - they might notice it, but they don’t understand how seriously, how desperately, the other person’s depending on them.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Parade

“Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.”
― Han Kang