Diya

“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“I have seen myself backward.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“I concluded that first of all I had to understand better what I was. Investigate my nature as a woman. I had been excessive, I had striven to give myself male capacities. I thought I had to know everything, be concerned with everything. What did I care about politics, about struggles. I wanted to make a good impression on men, be at their level. At the level of what, of their reason, most unreasonable.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.”
― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance