Ellen Lampinen

“You don't need to belong to one another in order to love one another.”
― Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound

“There was a kind of liberation in jettisoning all thought of being a good person.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

“And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That's where I am alone, the observer and the observed.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies

“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus