emma

“Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around now to complicate my existence. Maybe that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.
-Pablo Picasse after Francoise left him”
― Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“But I’d already started running—no, sprinting toward the trees across the grass, the rain already heavy enough that it kept stinging my eyes, Brian galloping along beside me. After a moment I could hear Aled running too, and I glanced behind me and stretched out my arm to him and cried, “Come along!” and he did; he reached out and took my hand and we ran like that through the countryside in the rain, and then he laughed, and it reminded me of a child’s laugh, and I wished people could always laugh and run like that.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence