Cata Winitzky

“I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“She packed everything into the shopping bags with the urgent efficiency of someone building a sand castle at sundown, as the tide comes in. Like a dream you know will end. If I move fast enough, I won't wake the gods.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Our vulnerability insults our self-conception; we are in pain and at the same time offended that we could so easily be so.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion