Rita Pacheco

“She had been trapped into saying something she did not mean.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“That connection between anxiety and ugliness unexpectedly consoled me. You can turn ugly because of worries—”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

“Aimlessness isn’t purposelessness. Not to me. Aimlessness isn’t meaningless. Quite the contrary. Aimlessness isn’t absence from life, it is full-bodied presence in it. To wander aimlessly is to move through the world without the conceit that we actually know what is coming next. That is, to move through the world with grace.”
― Toby Israel, Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel

“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
― Sylvia Plath