Efemia

“Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body,” you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor”
― Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People

“Today we are not put up on the platforms and sold at the courthouse square. But we are forced to sell our strength, our time, our souls during almost every hour that we live. We have been freed from one kind of slavery only to be delivered into another. Is this freedom?”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The terrain of my face was heavy with soft, rumbling acne scars blurring whatever delight or madness lay beneath that cold and deadly New England exterior.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Whatever is going to kill me will kill me and it will be mine.”
― Gabby Bess, Alone with Other People