Allie

“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“As far as I’m concerned," said Constant, "the Universe is a junk yard, with everything in it overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain," said Constant, "has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet." He spat again. "I resign," said Constant.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan

“She finished the wine. All of it. ‘I miss you,’ she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she’d loved were in the room with her.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“My mate died today," said Constant. "Sorry," said Salo. "I would say, ’Is there anything I can do?’—but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan