Elma

“Are there not books that make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“I think you're the opposite of insufferable, I suffer you gladly.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“but she was always happy to delay the night ending.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“And you’re in love?” “Ma, we’ve never even kissed.” “And that has anything to do with it?” “Okay, fine. Yes, I think so. But don’t tell anyone. Don’t even repeat it to yourself.” “Why?” “Because it’s humiliating.” “Sweetheart, love is humiliating. Hasn’t anyone ever told you that?” “Who would have told me that?” “Do you know the word humiliate comes from the Latin root humus , which means ‘earth’? That’s how love is supposed to feel.” “Like hummus?” “Like earth. It ground s you. All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that’s not real. It should hold you like the earth.” “Wow, Ma.” “What? I have a heart, don’t I?”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein