Adriana

“To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Formas de volver a casa

“on the surface of the Grand Canal, my writing in Italian is something impalpable. Nebulous, like the fog. I’m afraid that the bridge between me and Italian doesn’t, ultimately, exist. That it will remain, at best, a chimera.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir

“When she slid it over her head, she felt as if she had taken a knife to the surface of the sky, skimmed a little off the bottom, and worn the peel.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“You smiled as you saw my face approaching, because you didn’t know what tears were either.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Spring