Matylda

“And I could do it: I became myself, so I could become something else. So I could become the room, become the man, become the shadows and damp air, adopt the whole drama as my own. I could orient my desires, shape them into what I needed them to be. I reached inside myself, through the flesh and bone, and somewhere in there was the black pocket of my heart, and deep inside, so deep I had to really look for it, was an ability to want.”
― Nour Abi-Nakhoul, Supplication

“I can hear you clearly but it is also as if you are far away. It is unbearable to look back from the future we did not know we had been traveling toward. That is not right. It is unbearable because we did know. It was plain as our own palms.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I close my eyes and try to breathe but the end of the world is in my throat.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“[...] 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