Lotte

“It bothers me a lot that I don’t seem to own any real feelings anymore, but always have to pretend that I do by copying other people’s reactions. It’s as if I’m only moved by things that come to me indirectly. I can cry when I see a picture in the newspaper of an unfortunate family that’s been evicted, but when I see the same ordinary sight in reality, it doesn’t touch me. I’m moved by poetry and lyrical prose, now as always – but the things that are described leave me completely cold. I don’t think very much of reality.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

“There's a young girl in me who refuses to die.”
― Tove Ditlevsen

“Tous mes amis sont des mots.”
― Gaétan Soucy, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

“Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?”
― Ali Smith, Autumn