martina

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Todo puede ser tan hermoso, todo puede ser tan fértil, tan imprevisible, cuesta creer que sea obra de algún dios. El lenguaje es mío. Es mi derecho, me corresponde una parte de él. Vino a mí, yo no lo busqué, por lo tanto, es mío. Me lo heredó mi madre, lo despilfarró mi padre. Voy a destruirlo, a enfermarlo, a confundirlo, a incomodarlo, voy a desplazarlo y a hacerlo renacer tantas veces como sean necesarias, un renacimiento por cada cosa bien hecha en este mundo.”
― Camila Sosa Villada, Las malas

“...real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move. A friendship is a space where you're supposted and free to make mistakes.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous