Grayce

“The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex," by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.”
― Jerome K.