Magda Galloway

“I would give you the world. You simply have to ask [...] You want to watch the world burn?”
“Let me guess, you’ll set it on fire?” I ask.
He chuckles, the sound vibrating through me and settling into my bones.
“No, darling. I’ll hand you the match and stand at your back, watching you become queen of the ashes.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“And now in this lifetime we only felt right when we were saving a life together, fixing a flat tire by the side of the highway; we only became us against insurmountable odds. The rest of the time we respectfully forgave each other for utterly failing to be what we felt we deserved and then some of the time we were fucking furious about this and it seemed impossible to continue, but this itself was a sort of emergency and thus brought out our lifesaving skills, our diligence and seriousness. And so we were condemned to a very rigorous, if joyless, life that was profoundly meaningful until suddenly one day it wasn’t. Because I had felt joy. Stupid, pointless”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“I started doing several different breathing exercises at once that all canceled each other out.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“Seneca: We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
― Maria Semple, Go Gentle