Mei 美

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

“When you grow as old as I am you can’t any longer say this was someone’s fault, and that was someone else’s. It isn’t so clear when you take a long view. Blame seems to lie everywhere. Or nowhere. Who can say where unhappiness begins?”
― Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There

“In the end, I was led to the ultimate question of whether or not I should continue to live. For a brief moment, I felt acutely how unbearably painful life was, and felt that everything was futile. Suddenly, I really wanted to die. Later, another self within me made the impulsive decision to die, all by himself.”
― Eun-Jin Jang, No One Writes Back