Miranda Franklin

“I don’t want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.
What shall I tell you? I shall tell you the instants. I go too far and only then do I exist and in a feverish way.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“But there are those who starve to death and all I can do is be born. My rigmarole is: what can I do for them? My answer is: paint a fresco in adagio. I could suffer the hunger of others in silence but a contralto voice makes me sing—I sing dull and black. It’s my message of a person alone. A person eats another from hunger. But I fed myself with my own placenta. And I’m not going to bite my nails because this is a tranquil adagio.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“Parambolic — whatever that word means. Parambolic that I am. I can’t sum myself up because it’s impossible to add up a chair and two apples. I’m a chair and two apples. And I don’t add up.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“Look at me and love me. No: you look at yourself and love yourself. That’s
right.
What I’m writing to you goes on and I am bewitched.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva