Andrew Hernandez

“What do you do?" I asked the man, to break the silence shooting up around me on all sides, thick as jungle grass”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one’s head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I'm very interested in everything." The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human