Leanne

“Lucas is happy. This is a very provoking thing to the world. Because people aren’t supposed to be happy, they’re only supposed to want to be happy, because how otherwise are you supposed to be able to sell things to them? More than anything people are supposed to pretend to be happy on the internet so that other people are reminded of how unhappy they themselves are by comparison. Humanity has a system. But Lucas? He’s just happy. It wasn’t even particularly difficult. All he did was to remove the one thing that makes almost all people unhappy: other people. Whatever they want, the answer is no.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Let’s run, she wanted to beg him. Let’s run, let’s run . . . But then again, she knew what happened to a person on the run. They chase you and then they throw you to the ground and they rip you and break you . . .”
― Holly Schindler, Feral