Emery

“Is there some reason for my being here except to live out my allotted time, to burn my days alongside others who are, in turn, burning theirs?”
― Todd May, A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

“And now commenced the work of devastation upon the many good things with which the table was loaded.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The color painted within the Green Room was known as "sweetdream" and would render you unconscious in twelve minutes and dead in sixteen, but during those twelve minutes every synapse in your brain would fire in a sparkling fountain of pleasure. The cries from the Green Room were never of pain or fear. They were of ecstasy.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“He seemed very out of breath, placed both items gently on my hall carpet without being asked, and started to take off his jacket, still puffing and blowing like a beached porpoise. Smoking kills.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine