Suly

“Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but purely for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I'll never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“The mind is a changeable thing. It will take on any form it pleases; sometimes it is a lion, sometimes a rat...and the more you chase it, the faster it runs, the deeper it burrows.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“You're a mother, Ma. You're also a monster. But so am I--which is why I can't turn away from you. Which is why I have taken god's loneliest creation and put you inside it”
― Ocean Vuong

“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette