Soplapin

“A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“She was not wanted. That was the long and the short of it: she had learned want, briefly and hungrily. A span of a day, two days. She had learned the shape of it, the quick taste of it. She had reached out, foolishly, and she was not wanted in return.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“Beautiful everywhere, outside and in, male fantasies.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“I think she wants to eat me. I think she would inhale me if she could. I think she'd crawl herself inside of me if she thought that's where she'd find something that I've kept hidden from her. God help me. Would I let her? I would let her. God help me she looks at me. God help me I don't want her to look away.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep