Katrina Dumanjug

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”
― Nick Joaquín, The Woman Who Had Two Navels

“If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.”
― Nick Joaquín, The Woman Who Had Two Navels

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar