mimiky

“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
― Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology

“Very early in my life it was too late. It was already too late when I was eighteen. Between eighteen and twenty-five my face took off in a new direction. I grew old at eighteen. I don't know if it's the same for everyone, I've never asked. But I believe I've heard of the way time can suddenly accelerate on people when they're going through even the most youthful and highly esteemed stages of life. My ageing was very sudden. I saw it spread over my features one by one, changing the relationship between them, making the eyes larger, the expression sadder, the mouth more final, leaving great creases in the forehead. But instead of being dismayed I watched this process with the same sort of interest I might have taken in the reading of a book.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Don't want to be free want to be with you.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“...the history of everybody's 20s and 30s, after all, is one of the awareness of doors closing. At one age – very young – it occurs to you that you'll never be a ballet dancer. At a later age, you think you'll never be this, never be that. You make your life around what you have left - what doors haven't closed.”
― Joan Didion, Notes to John