Adrienne

“Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.”
― H. T. Hamann

“...you look at me like an emergency”
― Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal. ”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black