Brikena

“If one wanted beauty, one had only to rest one's eyes on her, so fine and old and lovely, like an ivory carving; flowing down like water into her chair, so slight and supple were her limbs, the firelight casting a flush of rose over her features and snowy hair. Youth had no beauty like the beauty of an old face; the face of youth was an unwritten page. Youth could never sit as still as that, in absolute repose, as though all haste, all movement, were over and done with, and nothing left but waiting and acquiescence.”
― Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent

“...to create you don't use your mind you use the art of observing the world and relishing it”
― Marosia Castaldi, The Hunger of Women

“I experienced pleasure like a future pain.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“According to his lights, he gave you all you could desire. He merely killed you, that's all. Men do kill women. Most women enjoy being killed; so I am told. Being a woman, I daresay that even you took a certain pleasure in the process.”
― Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent