Suly

“The years that are gone seem like dreams--if one might go on sleeping and dreaming--but to wake up and find--oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Other Stories

“If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing, of whose existence every one will be ignorant.”
― Mary Shelley, 弗兰肯斯坦

“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

“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