rachel

“I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy
of miracles.”
― Anaïs Nin, House of Incest

“I am a stranger to the little girl I was, and more—more strange. But many facts about a life should be left out, they are easily replaced.”
― Lyn Hejinian, My Life

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot