Cleo

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“And Lucia said that New York’s a jail to which, once committed, the sentence is for life; but that it is such a well-furnished jail, one does not mind much.”
― Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife

“I wondered what he was thinking, and I thought, "It is not true that, in time, one 'gets over' almost anything. In time, one survives almost anything. There is a distinction.”
― Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife

“When I was younger, I think what I wanted was to travel the world, to lead a glamorous life, to be celebrated for my work, to marry a great intellectual, to reject everything I had been raised with, to cut myself off from the narrow world. I feel very embarrassed by all that now, but I was lonely and unhappy, and I didn’t understand that these feelings were ordinary, that there was nothing singular about my loneliness, my unhappiness.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You