Julie

“You discover that a man who has gone even a week on bread and margarine is not a man any longer, only a belly with a few accessory organs.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“Looking back on his life, he sees himself spread out on the earth like a giant covered in tiny threads that have held him down. Tiny threads of petty cares and small concerns, and fears he took seriously at the time. Debts, timetables, the need for money, the longing for comfort; the earworm of sex, repeating itself over and over like a neural feedback loop. He’s been the puppet of his own constricted desires.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last