Charly

“I am destroying myself so other people can’t," she said, "and it’s the worst kind of control but it’s the only form I know.”
― Sue Zhao

“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake

“once I believed
love poems were foolish

now I read love poems
just for the sake of it

and yet perhaps I want
to reach a higher state of poetry

I don't know if that's right or wrong
but such a feeling persists anyway

and sometimes irritates me
provoking outrageous desires

once I believed
love poems were foolish

yet now I do nothing
but dream about love”
― Chūya Nakahara

“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls