Ada

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It’s the flowers I hate, fresh bunches
almost every day, tossed, fine, composted, before any hint of wilt,
like bright blooms aren’t a luxury, like they’re some kind of need.
When we argue about the flowers, the arguments I make are about
waste and about money, valid arguments both. Though in fact what
I hate about the flowers is that they are, for my mother, a source of
pleasure, that my mother believes in allowing herself pleasure, in
indulging her various material desires. What I hate about the
flowers is that they are an example of the many ways in which my
mother extends her kindness also to herself.”
― Miranda Popkey

“Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980