Daniela Lawson

“We become "ads" for ourselves under the pressure of the spectacle that flattens our experience of the public/private dichotomy.”
― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

“My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelt like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realized that the truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“...and feel the oldest and most devastating pain there is: not the pain of childhood, but the remembrance of it.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula