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

“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“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