Karen Middlebrook

“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire from the confusion of chaos.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“more damaging was his conviction that we live by a series of repetitions until the experience is solved, understood, liquidated...”
― Anaïs Nin, Seduction of the Minotaur: The Authoritative Edition