Blair

“So, Laura thinks, this is how it ends: everybody deserves what they get, one way or another. So Virginia was a fraud; so Isobel was a patsy; so Laura’s a fool; so the boys were just coddled, callous idiots who circulated a sex tape of the girl they couldn’t fuck, until poor, stupid Ivan Dixon sent it to Freddy because he couldn’t fuck her, either; so Sebastian Webster wrote a mediocre book and died on the wrong side of history, for no reason but that he was rich, and young, and bored, and the sclerotic modern world was the same then as it is now, and always will be; world without end; and all Webster meant by the rocks and the harbor are one is that in the end you die.”
― Tara Isabella Burton, The World Cannot Give

“There are truths I haven’t even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Complete Stories

“To be awake is to be available to torment, and this is the full complete meaning of life.”
― Patrick McGrath, Spider

“You leave the analyst's office aware of your singularity and your solitude alike. It's you who lives in the prison of your skin. No one gets the afterglow they want. Everyone dies alone. Analysis is a process. The process is a slow procession. It is a cortège.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau