“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn’t exist yet. I was making it, standing there, breathing, fixing the air around my body with stillness, trying to capture something—a thought, I guess…”
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

“The sudden absence of responsibility was a floaty, frothy, almost hallucinogenic weightlessness.”

All Fours by Miranda July

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“Maybe it was the wrong day to try microdosing, but she’d needed something to help her get through dinner…”

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin is one of the best books I’ve read in a while.

Incidental, but telling. In case cropping is weird - an NYT ad appeared directly below this post.