Murren

“When their warm bodies meet, San feels a surge of loneliness she's sure will last for the rest of her life.”
― Shin Kyung-sook, Violets

“Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,”
― Shin Kyung-sook, Violets

“It’s that surreal time of morning, early enough that night workers are sleepily making their way home whilst others wait at bus stops to open up coffee shops, or to relieve colleagues from their dawn shift. The in-betweenness of it feels vaguely reassuring, as though I could slip right in around these people with places to go and things to do without them noticing me. As though I am part of yesterday whilst they head towards today.”
― Katie Bishop, The Girls of Summer

“When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is.”
― Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America