Beth

“Because—as I’d discovered—loneliness is not a function of company, but rather it is a consequence: an unpleasant symptom of a needy state of mind that desperately seeks to extract happiness from a source outside itself.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“I just know that when I’m walking on the wafer-thin ice of happiness, I’m terrified, so terrified that I wish it was over, that I was already in the water.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Thirst

“There’s nothing like a blood-curdling hymn to make you feel at home,”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want.” A gloating expression. “The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune