Emma

“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

“I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial

“He visits my town once a year.
He fills my mouth with kisses and nectar.
I spend all my money on him.
Who, girl, your man?
No, a mango.”
― Amir Khusrau, In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau

“It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”
― Bela Lugosi