Melanie Wilson

“You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom. ”
― Dan Chaon, Among the Missing

“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”
― Naomi Wolf

“And then I notice the music flooding out of every part of the apartment at once — the couch, the walls, even the floor — and I know Bennies alone in Lou’s studio, pouring music down around us. A minute ago it was “Don’t Let Me Down”. Then it was Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”. Now it’s Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger”. Listening, I think, You will never know how much I understand you.”
― Jennifer Egan

“In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Sourland