Ana

“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.”
― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

“It's all rehearsed, in a weird way. People spend so much time dramatizing trivial bullshit that when an actual tragedy happens, I wonder how anyone could possibly act out their grief in a natural way. The tragedies we steel ourselves for never come for years and years, and our negative fantasies wear us down inch by inch, so that when the blow actually comes, there's little of us left to care.”
― Halle Butler, The New Me