Carly

“What is left if we eliminate orientation—or if it changes willy-nilly? Is there anything solid to me at all, anything I can count on?”
― Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

“Of course: under gender we find the bare thing, the person themself.”
― Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

“You spend so much time playing in your mind, like a sandbox. Everything just slipping through your fingers, nothing solid to hold.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“It was comforting to have an animal, so consistently near and needy, to focus on, to nurture. Just to have another heart beating in the room, a live energy, had cheered me. I hadn’t realized how lonely I’d been, and then suddenly I wasn’t alone at all. I had a dog. Never again would I be alone, I thought. What a gift to have such a companion, like a child and protector, both, something wiser than me in so many ways, and yet doting, loyal, and affectionate.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands