Émilie Rochette

“Though the idea of objective hotness fucks me up a little. The idea that certain arrangements of facial features are automatically superior. It’s like someone woke up one day with a boner for big-eyed, soft-lipped, tight-bodied cheekbone people, and we all just decided to go along with that.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“Peut-être simplement, comme la plupart des gens qui, en vieillissant, se raffermissent dans leurs habitudes et deviennent de plus en plus eux-mêmes, cède-t-elle à son penchant naturel, la solitude, et à son corollaire, le silence.”
― Dominique Fortier, Les villes de papier

“That was just how Jim was. He saturated. He overflowed. He drowned".”
― Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake

“You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence." I guess she was trying to make me feel better, but I find mental disorders to be vastly overrated. Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn't make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down