Books
"Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying 'What? I'm not doing anything.'"
Problems, Jade Sharma
"The sheets in the photographs match the sheets on the bed. The body looks good. The face isn't much. I smile. I'm one of them now, a blade in the guts of some future girl."
From Things to Make and Break, by May-Lan Tan
"Have you ever had your heart broken? It’s something that instills a great sense of dread, and it colours everything that happens afterwards in an endless, linear, slow motion. And I hate linearity. It bores everyone."
-Trisha Low, The Compleat Purge
"When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease."
-Muriel Spark, Loitering With Intent
"Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell."
-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
