Shwan Fraidoon Abdulqader > Shwan's Quotes

“Those people with perfect houses are simply obsessed with death. A house that is so well maintained, furnished with good-looking furniture of high quality, decorated tastefully, everything in its place, becomes a living tomb. People truly engaged in life have messy houses.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“We never really live in the seasons as we’re always busy with the next one.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn't sleep.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar