Maia

“Loneliness is the human condition most rejecting of easy analysis”
― Vivian Gornick

“Belief; a mental trick to soften the landscape.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“Rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave. Until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.”
― Henry Miller

“Maktub’ in Arabic means ‘it is written.’ Write a narrative in which the speaker starts to understand that events, as they happen in his/her life, can be seen not as surprises but as an uncovering- the systematic revelation of fate.”
― Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia