Jae ❦

“If the twinkling of the stars pains me, if this distant communication is possible, it is because something almost like a star quivers within me.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“It’s in this valor, human, absurd, that I see true grace.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Inertia oozed like molasses through Elaine's limbs.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“She wanted even more: to be reborn always, to sever everything that she had learned, that she had seen, and inaugurate herself in new terrain where every tiny act had a meaning, where the air was breathed as if for the first time.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart