Matylda

“When you have arrived at the thing itself, then all you can do is compare it to something else you don't understand. A rock. A crow. The only things that remain themselves are the ones you can never reach. The things that are too big or too far away or move too slowly to detect. Smooth. Feathered. Loved. Already lost. They will always be only what they really are, and you will never know what name to call out to them.

I am in the ocean. I am on the shore. I am trying to remember or to see.

The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I pretended everything would be okay because it seemed impossible to always be saying goodbye.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“Stop trying to make everything mean something,” Lisa said. “Trying to flatten everything to a “symbol or a point. The coral is dying because of microbeads in body wash and because of Monsanto and because there’s no reason for anyone powerful enough to do anything about it to do anything about it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“[...] she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof. I half believed her; for I felt indeed only bad feelings surging in my breast.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre