Sofia Rodriguez

“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“In my student bathroom, I had given birth to both life and death.”
― Annie Ernaux, Happening

“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Porque por encima de todas las razones sociales y psicológicas que pueda encontrar a lo que viví, hay una de la cual estoy totalmente segura: esas cosas me ocurrieron para que diera cuenta de ellas. Y quizás el verdadero objetivo de mi cuerpo, mis sensaciones y mis pensamientos se conviertan en escritura, es decir, en algo inteligible y general, y que mi experiencia pase a disolverse completamente en la cabeza y en la vida de otros.”
― Annie Ernaux, L'Événement