Blue

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Les émotions non exprimées ne meurent jamais. Elles sont enterrées vivantes et libérées plus tard de façon plus laides.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Among those who have everything, I have never seen a family go to the seashore just to celebrate a political decision, because for them politics changes almost nothing. This is something I realized when I went to live in Paris, far away from you: the ruling class may complain about a left-wing government, they may complain about a right-wing government, but no government ever ruins their digestion, no government ever breaks their backs, no government ever inspires a trip to the beach. Politics never changes their lives, at least not much. What’s strange, too, is that they’re the ones who engage in politics, though it has almost no effect on their lives. For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

“Vous ne savez pas à quelle vitesse vous avez couru, avec quelle ardeur vous avez travaillé, quel stade d’épuisement vous avez atteint, avant que quelqu’un se tienne derrière vous et dise : « Tout va bien, tu peux tomber maintenant. Je te rattraperai. »
Alors je suis tombée.
Et Harry m’a rattrapée”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo