Erin Williams

“I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The way any story is understood reveals both the nature of the person telling it, and the person who reads it or hears it. Stories are living things because we make them so, right? A story only dies when it's forgotten.”
― Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding