Elyssa

“And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There's no invention to get around that. And so, I felt that night like the turtle that everything in the universe was on top of.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running