Madeline

“You don’t walk in the truth, you walk in the reality you want to inhabit, you walk in the reality you can stand.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla

“Books were already a familiar refuge, after all, and they still took me in without the slightest judgment. They don’t close to you the way a person can. You might feel as though you don’t belong anywhere, least of all in your own home, you might feel bound to a person whose actions you abhor yet unable to divorce yourself, struggling to individuate in their shadow—“all these feelings you wouldn’t dare articulate to another person, no matter how highly trained—but you can bring your whole untempered self to books. You can ask them anything, and though you may need to search for the resonant lines, though the answer may come at a slant, they will always speak to you, they will always let you in.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla

“Until our world decides that every human matters, that everyone has a right to food and safety and freedom and healthcare and equality, it is the obligation of those privileged to have food and safety and freedom and healthcare and equality to fight tirelessly for those who do not.”
― L.R. Knost

“Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla