Sandy

“It was nothing as sweet as nostalgia or a longing for bygone days, just a constant absence from the present, an anger toward the future.”
― Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

“He spent all his time trying to remember, as if memories could sustain him.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“To despise someone is intimate by default.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“I have seen his face in its many variations. I have seen it when he’s angry, when he’s satisfied, when he tries to project control. I have been on his good side and his bad side. It is a face I have spent a lot of time trying to read, trying to appeal to, trying to capitulate to, trying to pretend for. I have always positioned myself in relation to him, thinking I could toe the line, thinking it would be fine if I just cooperated, thinking if only I compressed myself a bit more.”
― Ling Ma, Severance