Alejandra

“She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“After all this kind of fanfare and even more I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they a call living I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
They say too in ancient scripture: - wisdom can only be obtained from the viewpoint of solitude,”
― Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

“I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil