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“Hunger’s like a disease: it has to be tended.’ So is loneliness.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip

“SO BLIND WE humans are—so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have, as Artie did with Rhonda Lazarre that day. But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“Life becomes a silt around your relationships, and before you know it, you’re half buried and unable to adjust.”
― Kenan Orhan, The Renovation

“As he thought about this, he understood: I did not want to die, I just did not want to live.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say