Mary

“Am I in love? - Yes, since I'm waiting." The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes

“Sabi ng nanay ko, 'yan daw totoo... di raw dapat ikahiya!"

"E kung magnanakaw ka, di mo ikakahiya?"

"Sabi ng nanay ko, kung ikakahiya mo... h'wag mong gagawin!”
― Lualhati Bautista, Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?

“Jupiter, you are angry, therefore you are wrong.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are times when my longing for you overwhelms me […] so often I can think of you only with teeth clenched.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice