Milli

“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.”
― David Mitchell, Slade House

“People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go.”
― David Mitchell, Slade House

“How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. For Anna, during this watch, each day had to pass like one endless moment.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

“Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer