Emma Antonelli

“Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“I will write about the season of peril. I was put in hospital because a great gap opened in the ice floe between myself and the other people whom I watched, with their world, drifting away through a violet-coloured sea where hammerhead sharks in tropical ease swam side by side with the seals and the polar bears. I was alone on the ice.”
― Janet Frame, Faces In The Water

“an event of such prodigious proportions and importance that it infused her with a new will to live and materialized a dream that brightened her days and soothed her lonely nights.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream