Jen

“Not to be devoured is the secret objective of a whole existence.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Smallest Woman in the World

“What I learned late in life, under my rain of lava, under my kill-or-cure, unhappily, slowly, stubbornly, barely, and in really dreadful pain, was that there is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either--but right through every human heart.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“… as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity exchanged for a new suit, instead of gradually renewing themselves by patchwork…”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables