Rūta

“Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves.”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I could never reconcile myself to the fact that just as you’ve recovered from your own childhood, and finally crawled out of the pit of it and felt the sun on your face for the first time, you have to give up that place in the sun to a baby you’re determined won’t suffer the way you did, and crawl back down into another pit of self-sacrifice to make sure she doesn’t!”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place