Omneya

“they are unhappy with what I have become”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Before, they wouldn't speak to each other. Now they were mobilized. The Tribe was in danger.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“I've been wondering. . . I mean, I thought you might be able to tell me something." Buddy met my eyes and I saw, for the first time, how he had changed. Instead of the old, sure smile that flashed on easily and frequently as a photographer's bulb, his face was grave, even tentative -- the face of a man who often does not get what he wants.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Doctor Nolan had said, quite bluntly, that a lot of people would treat me gingerly, or even avoid me, like a leper with a warning bell. My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar