Kali B

“He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. He knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to beyond the horizon, as if impelled by a sinister centrifugal force.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon too soon.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“If this is a sad story, don’t tell it to me tonight.’‘It is not sad,’ she said. ‘Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea