Scarlett

“The trouble with Rosina is she wants every man: Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, Leonardo, Mozart, Wilamowitz, Mr Gladstone, D.H. Lawrence, Jimmy Carter--you name him, she wants him.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“He told her that up till that day she had lived like an insect. An insect that knows nothing beyond the leaf upon which it hangs.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“She learned to think at a young age and because she hadn’t seen any human being up close except herself, she was awe-struck, she suffered, her pride was painful, sometimes light but almost always difficult to carry.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“Actually, the quality of these incidents was such, that you couldn’t remember them by speaking. Or even by thinking in words. The only way was to stop for a moment and feel it again.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart