Dini ♉️

“I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible.”
― Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

“If they wanted to have time to read a book in the evenings, that was as important as any of Napoleon’s ambitions. Because what a triumph it was for any woman to have time for herself—and to be able to do something that benefitted her imagination alone.”
― Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

“The world made a whore of me, now I'll make a whorehouse of the world”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame

“She would tell me stories about the family or about the neighbors, but I'd never listen. I'd complain: Stop talking so much! I couldn't see that she spoke to ease the boredom, the precise duplication of hours and days that life with my father imposed upon her, and that for her, as it would be for me many years later, the telling of her life's story was the best remedy she could think of to help her bear the weight of her existence.”
― Édouard Louis, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations