Carolina

“I started to feel strange—not guilty per se, but somehow responsible for her suffering. I felt as though she were a stranger I had hit with my car, and I was waiting for her to die so she wouldn’t be able to identify me. When she talked, it was like I was watching a movie.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Then why do you protect them?”
“Because I can,” she said”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“even a person raised in captivity learns to want, yearns to see beyond their cage. How much of our humanity is intrinsic? How much remains, when all else is stripped away?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men