Emma Burris

“The important thing...is not to be cured, but to live with one’s ailments.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“And then Billy's mother came back from the ladies' room, sat down on a chair between Billy's and Rosewater's bed. Rosewater greeted her with melodious warmth, asked how she was today. He seemed delighted to hear that she was fine. He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with everybody he met. He thought that might make the world a slightly more pleasant place to live in. He called Billy's mother 'dear.' He was experimenting with calling everybody 'dear.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“He feels that God is necessary and that he must exist. But he knows that he does not and cannot exist.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus