Elizabeth Vanderwoude

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Miles away, factory smokestacks rimmed with flame sent up cast billowing clouds of smoke that gave watercolor look to the sky – orange yellow – a pink cast like dawn – beauty to the gray-layered winter sky like cotton batting laced with flame bleak and radiant simultaneously; and Felix in a rush of gratitude though his heartbeat was still erratic and his hands were sticky with blood could have weepy seeing such beauty in all he’d been a witness to most of his life, thinking Oh Jesus he was going to miss these opaque surfaces of a world he knew so well, it was like his skill turned inside out, all he loved out there, he was missing them even now when he was still here, still alive.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, You Must Remember This

“But I am alive still. Now what's to be done? what's to be done?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina