Pg 40 Quotes

“Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“The room was the opposite of what I'd created in my home, the opposite of the soft beauty I'd made from my talent for arrangement, my talent for living, the opposite of my serene irony, of my sweet and absentminded irony: it was a violation of my quotation marks, the quotation marks that made me a citation of myself. The room was the portrait of an empty stomach.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“You don't tell a story to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale