Mila

“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. It is as if I could dip my hands down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country.”
― Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“It's for her", I say to myself as I shiver with anticipation. I imagine the moon rising, the loss of control against the deeper desires, a naked still dreaming darling darting through the rooms, an appetite finally met, the top twisting off the jar that is waiting in the dark.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“I was overcome by a sense of how much more there was in his life than in mine, by the things to do and distances to travel, while I never had done anything or gone anywhere, and never would.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“Women are never just women, they're the men they prop up and save.”
― Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak