Stella Patel

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”
― Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre

“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
― Simone de Beauvoir