Connor Stompanato

“Maybe we all were born with trust and then lost it. Maybe we all had to find it again before we left.”
― Kassandra Montag, After the Flood

“Try to have a sense of 'I'; I = myself, as the center of my powers, as the creator of my world.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963 – A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet's Intimate Correspondence on Marriage and Mental Health

“I have this desire in my gut to be liked by everybody. That always happens when nobody likes you.”
― Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl

“This is reality, this is pure fact - this forest, this moss, your hand, the ladybird on my leg, this cannot be taken away, can it? (it will, it was). This has all come together here, no matter how the paths twisted, and fooled each other, and got fouled up, they inevitably met here!”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle