Sofia Hossain

“We scribbled down writers’ reflections on life, discovered the joys of describing ourselves to ourselves with shimmering turns of phrase, ‘existence is to drink oneself without thirst.’ We were overcome by nausea and a feeling of the absurd.”
― Annie Ernaux, Les Années

“Without love and trust, resentment is the only thing that’s left.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“She has no name for that feeling of utter abandonment, nor the feeling that comes over her on fair days, when she stands in the courtyard from the photo, and the voice of the loudspeaker booms front behind the trees, and the music and commercials run together in an unintelligible blur. It is as if she were standing outside the fete, separated from some earlier thing.”
― Annie Ernaux, Les Années

“The man is nothing. It’s what you think you are missing inside of yourself. I promise that you are missing nothing.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal