Karen

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“The more power man acquires, the more vulnerable he becomes. What he must fear most is the moment when, creation entirely fleeced, he will celebrate his triumph, that fatal apotheosis, the victory he will not survive.”
― Emil Cioran, Drawn and Quartered