Jae ❦

“Suddenly I see myself as another, as another would be seen, outside myself, available to all, available to all eyes, in circulation for cities, journeys, desire.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner

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

“I think I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature.”
― Sylvia Plath

“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