Holly

“I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in the world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn't.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe.”
― Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

“At work I imagined nice things that might happen to me if I were a different person.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“Hello there dandelions, fuck off! Chop go the heads with a cut of the stick excuse me just what do you think you're doing clip clip chop chop aaargh! what the fuck is going on where's our heads? Hee-yup!, I said and away again.”
― Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy