Lauren

“There is no protection. To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal. Even if scars form, the festering is ever below.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read," he wrote. "It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, and who had ever been alive." I was the man, I suffered, I was there. p.xv”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I am nothing to you. You say I am wilderness. I am. Is that a tremble on your mouth, in your eye? Are you afraid? You should be.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy