Sofia Jauss

“Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“but it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“This was their favorite place to meet. It always felt hidden, forgotten. The gold-lettered World Book encyclopedias from the 1980s. The smell of old glue and crumbling paper, the industrial carpet burning her palms.

It reminded her of what you did when you were a little girl, making little burrows and hideaways. Like boys did with forts. Eli and his friend, stacking sofa cushions, pretending to be sharpshooters. With girls, you didn’t call them forts, though it was the same.”
― Megan Abbott, The Fever

“I often wondered if she was accusing me of starting the war, though in Olga's eyes that would have been the least of my crimes.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Kindness of Women