Maria

“...A set of beliefs, and I imagined catalogs from which one could order such sets, like furniture, believes that wouldn't collapse under one's full weigth, big sturdy reliable sideboards of belief...”
― Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life

“To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Nalan thought that one of the endless tragedies of human history was that pessimists were better at surviving than optimists, which meant that, logically speaking, humanity carried the genes of people who did not believe in humanity”
― Elif Shafak

“experimentaba cada tanto uno de esos éxtasis repentinos, sutiles y tal vez microquímicos —pequeñas luces centelleando en lo más hondo del tejido cerebral— que ocurren cuando encontramos finalmente las palabras para expresar un sentimiento muy simple que, sin embargo, había PERMANECIDO innombrable”
― Valeria Luiselli