Allison Mzopera

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula