Ellen

“Lóri was feeling as if she were a dangerous tiger with an arrow buried in its flesh, and which had been circling slowly around frightened people to see who would take away its pain. And then a man, Ulisses, had felt that a wounded tiger isn’t dangerous. And approaching the beast, unafraid to touch her, he had carefully pulled out the buried arrow.”
― Clarice Lispector , An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“It’s because I don’t want to be platonic in relation to myself. I’m profoundly defeated by the world I live in. I separated myself just for a while because of my defeat and because I felt that other people were defeated too. So I closed myself up in an individualization that if I hadn’t been careful could have been transformed into a hysterical or contemplative solitude.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“Nostalgia (from "nostos" - return home, and "algia" - longing) is a longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy. Nostalgic love can only survive in a long-distance relationship. A cinematic image of nostalgia is a double exposure, or a superimposition of two images - of home and abroad, past and present, dream and everyday life. The moment we try to force it into a single image, it breaks the frame or burns the surface.”
― Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia

“And Lóri thought that might be one of the most important human and animal experiences: asking mutely for help and mutely that help being given.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures