"Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all."

"i wanted to say somewhere: i've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back."

- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss