Simone Torn

“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“for you in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name