Allie

“The question about the page is: what is beneath it? It seems to have only two dimensions, you can pick it up and turn it over and the back is the same as the front. Nothing, you say, disappointed.

But you were looking in the wrong place, you were looking on the back instead of beneath. Beneath the page is another story. Beneath the page is a story. Beneath the page is everything that has ever happened, most of which you would rather not hear about.

The page is not a pool but a skin, a skin is there to hold in and it can feel you touching it. Did you really think it would just lie there and do nothing?

Touch the page at your peril: it is you who are blank and innocent, not the page. Nevertheless you want to know, nothing will stop you. You touch the page, it's as if you've drawn a knife across it, the page has been hurt now, a sinuous wound opens, a thin incision. Darkness wells through.”
― Margaret Atwood, Good Bones and Simple Murders

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
― Alain de Botton

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If the stock market exists, so must previous lives.”
― Margaret Atwood, Good Bones and Simple Murders