Lina

“Relations between a man and a woman are always strange: nothing can be foreseen, they have no predictable direction, no law. Sometimes you come to a dead end, where there is nothing to do but sit down and weep; all the words have been said, and to no purpose; all the arguments have been thought of, and shattered. But then sometimes, at a chance look or word, the wall doesn't start to crack, but simply melts away. And where there was nothing but darkness, a clear path appears again, where two people can walk.

Just a path — perhaps only for a minute.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I began to see beauty as something that could be unleashed from within a person rather than a set of physical features like a perfect nose or big eyes.”
― Jean Kwok, Mambo in Chinatown

“I want to be me, and yet I'm not sure who I am.”
― Suzanne Young, The Program