Bucyte

“Bridget turned the screen of her phone to face Margaret and thumbed through the images one by one, and with restraint Margaret nodded her head instead of taking the device from her mother's hand and flinging it forcefully across the room. This is what you get, Bridget seemed to be saying, for being different. Well, it's true, after all, Margaret thinks. This is what you get. To work in a nice place with a few interesting people, to have friends with whom to discuss life and ideas. To attend the theatre, to hear live music, to arrange the use of the studio room on Monday nights for the local philosophy reading group. Oh, Kierkegaard, that'll be interesting. To exercise once again, for a little time, who knows how long, the power to charm and fascinate, to be the object of an intense and searching desire. And to feel inside herself the reciprocating force of desire, this is what she gets, a life of her own.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Sometimes it's good to fall into emptiness. Be it another person, or oneself, or a junkyard...
Blessed are the hours of emptiness.
My life vacillates between the two, the emptiness and... and... whatever is the opposite of it.
Whatever it is, it isn't fullness...”
― Jonas Mekas, I Had Nowhere to Go

“Sometimes we, [women], agree on what really matters to us, sometimes we agree on who we are – and often we don’t: and that’s because we do not have one male-defined ‘nature’ but we are diverse and complex.”
― Philippa Gregory, Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

“Everywhere you go there is something wonderful, if only you open your heart, your mind, your wallet, or your thighs.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger