Nele

“We are cleaved together - we are cleaved apart - everything that draws me to you is everything that drives me away.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

“I am torn and I am mended - I want everything and need nothing - I love you and am content without you.

Even so, come quickly!”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

“You don't feel a great deal of emotions for other people, do you?"
I was taken aback. "What are you talking about?" I said. "Of course I do."
"Do you?" He raised an eyebrow. "I don't think so. It doesn't matter," he said, after a long, tense pause. "I don't, either.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn't even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn't talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
― Yiwei Chai