Janene

“But dying alone, cradled by the universe, continuous with the rest of its energy, wasn’t something I dreaded anymore. Worse things had already happened.”
― Sarah Manguso, Liars

“I have a fear in me. Something I hope isn't true. It is that the holes inside his parents that drove them into each other's arms as well as into making art are also in his body somehow. Like he carries a trace of our sadness and pain even as he will become a completely different person.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Reading the Waves: A Memoir

“But hey, that’s humanity! It’s silly and pointless, aside from punctuations of brightness afforded by love and friendship.”
― Kristen Arnett, Stop Me If You've Heard This One

“She read Walden out of sheer boredom and found herself annoyed by Thoreau: his self-regard, his tone of superiority, the way he doled out advice so obvious as to be insulting. Here was a rich person playing, thought Louise. There were poor people far more resourceful and self-sufficient than he was; they just had the grace and self-awareness not to brag about it.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods