Bárbara

“I’m good, but not good enough, which is worse than simply being bad.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon