Isaura Calsyn

“That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire