sandra

“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter