valia

“I thought my parents would love me more as a child. So I couldn't become an adult.”
― Nagata Kabi, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I lost the things that had given me shape, and as they disappeared, I felt like I was dissolving into thin air.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you —in your way?” he asked. I am still thinking about that.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“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