irina

“He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.”
― Vita Sackville-West, Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

“Carmen's ex-boyfriend Tom was a social worker and weekend DJ who eventually left her for reasons I never quite managed to grasp. Carmen typically speaks about him the way one might refer to a degree: a three-year period one has to endure in order to talk with overbearing authority on exactly one subject. She is the world's living expert on loving and losing thirty-year-old men named Tom.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“In my head, I think I’m often telling Miri stories, logging away information or things I’ve seen in order to tell her about them later. Even trapped as I was down there, I was still doing this: taking everything in with one eye on how to recount it.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea