valia

“Up until then, i'd never understood how people could just keep on living (...) Maybe I had a place to belong, but it wasn't something definite, like a seat. It was flowing and formless... Perhaps inside of me, perhaps outside of me. A reason to live, the power to live, a place to belong in this world... I think the essence of that sweet nectar varies from person to person.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“There are people who say that "when you reject one thing about me, I take it as a full rejection of me as a person".”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“That day threw me away into a dark, painful space with nothing below my feet. I'd lost my candidate for a place to belong.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness