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“All love is a weakness, if it comes to that, in so far as it destroys some part of our independence.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians

“No sabía que a una mujer podían matarla por el solo hecho de ser mujer, pero había escuchado historias que, con el tiempo, fui hilvanando. Anécdotas que no habían terminado en la muerte de la mujer, pero que sí habían hecho de ella objeto de la misoginia, del abuso, del desprecio.”
― Selva Almada, Chicas muertas

“I’m scared of this. I’m scared of being happy. I’m scared of wanting things and not getting them.’ I hesitated. ‘Or getting them and then losing them. Or getting them, and having them, and it not being enough. I’m scared of what happens after the happy ending.’ I”
― Ewa Ramsey, The Morbids

“He was a foolish cynic who said that great love occurred only two or three times in a century. There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree. Surviving all vicissitudes, and rich with its manifold branches, every leaf holding its own significance.”
― Vita Sackville-West, No Signposts in the Sea