Mona Alsubaei

“One thing about being alive is that you can swim. Other things too - you can look at the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night and think of space as something you can't terribly care about conquering. Let it go on being spacious while it can. There's lots of time if you think in terms of light-years.”
― Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

“When someone confided in me, a man or a woman who admitted they were having, or had had, "a crazy love affair with a guy" or "a very close relationship with someone," I occasionally felt like opening up. But once the excitement of sharing our secrets was over, I resented having let myself go, if only a little. Those conversations, when I had continually responded to the other person by saying "me too, it's the same for me, I did that too," suddenly seemed futile, removed from the reality of my own passion. Rather, something was lost through these outbursts.”
― Annie Ernaux;, Simple Passion

“the world was new and warm, just out of the oven, and it was all for me!”
― Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid

“True romance is respectful and empathic.”
― Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People