Daia

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“…disse-lhe que era preciso ter paciência, que os desgostos eram a parte principal da vida; os prazeres eram a exceção…”
― Machado de Assis, Casa Velha

“Y descubrí también, con la más inmensa desazón, que en cualquier momento y sin causa aparente, todo aquello que creemos estable puede desajustarse, desviarse, torcer su rumbo y empezar a cambiar.”
― María Dueñas, El tiempo entre costuras

“My fear didn't want to be left behind, so it came with me.”
― María Dueñas, The Time in Between