Seren

“I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I will be girl with claws, heart bared and bruised and wanting. I am soul-shattering wolf-howl. I am lioness and hunt. I am more and enough. I am.”
― Venetta Octavia, Prelude to Light

“I was very often full of rage and despair. I was always lonely. In spite of all that I was and am in love with life. When I was upset I went roaming into the Pennines – all day on a jam sandwich and a bottle of milk. When I was locked outside, or the other favourite, locked in the coal-hole, I made up stories and forgot about the cold and the dark. I know these are ways of surviving, but maybe a refusal, any refusal, to be broken lets in enough light and air to keep believing in the world – the dream of escape.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“You will flicker in these words
and in the words of others
for a while and then go out.

Even if I send them,
you will never get these letters.
Even if I see you again,

I will never see you again.”
― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986