Rachel

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I saw the bumpy shape of my skull, I saw myself shorn and revealed. I wandered in a dream around the city, glimpsing in shop windows a strange creature with my face.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip