Masha

“I have searched for my mother's love in all the corners of the world.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the place of annihilation. And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit.' Can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?' She draws her long, sharp fingernail across the bars of the cage in which her pet lark sings, striking a plangent twang like that of the plucked heartstrings of a woman of metal. Her hair falls down like tears.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“I won’t be in the history books; that’s for you. But I loved you first. As long as they get that right, I don’t care what they say.”
― dropdeaddream, Not Easily Conquered

“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe