Sara

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
― Mary W. Shelley

“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934