Alexandria

“In a city you can be alone in a crowd and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind in its teeming multitudes.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself, her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“Sometimes she'd compare herself to the fruits, and despising her external appearance, she'd eat herself internally, full of living juice as she was. She was trying to leave pain, as if trying to leave another reality that had lasted her whole life up to that point.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“Language serves the process of mutual understanding… we are convinced that we know what we are talking about,
we are convinced that they understand us, we translate other languages into our own. All our endeavors boil down to this: we miss the meaning. For if we truly understand one another, speaker and listener, writer and reader, you and I, we would have to spit into each other’s mouths, entwining our tongues, mixing our spittle. You and I, editor, we speak different languages: yours is only human, whereas mine is both human and serpentine.”
― Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg