Emma

“What’s this?”
“It’s a napkin used by the saddest girl in the world to dry her tears.”
“Let me guess. Sylvia Plath?”
“No, no one famous. But we knew about her. She gave off so much resonance, it turned our entire map black for one city block.”
“And she was no one special?”
“You wouldn’t recognise her name if I told it to you.”
“So just an everyday, normal person carrying their shopping, reading books at night and going for drinks occasionally with her friends, just some person, that’s the saddest girl in the world?”
“Yes. Just a regular person.”
― Iain S. Thomas

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.”
― Andrea Gibson

“To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.”
― Andrea Gibson