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“Non avevo altare, ma non ne avevo bisogno: ogni luogo in cui mi trovavo era il mio tempio.”
― Madeline Miller

“Being present is not just putting your phone down for a few minutes. It is a way of being, from interaction to interaction, where you consciously inhabit your own body and show up with the best of your attention, offering your presence as a gift.”
― Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

“E un giorno, ci incontreremo in un caffè o in metropolitana. cercheremo di non riconoscerci o di fingere di non vederci, ci gireremo svelti dall'altra parte. Saremo imbarazzati per ciò che è diventato il nostro "noi", per quello che ne è rimasto. Niente. Due estranei uniti da un passato immaginario, da cui a lungo si sono lasciati ingannare vergognosamente.”
― Daniel Glattauer, Gut gegen Nordwind

“That image, of the self, does not belong equally to everyone. As a woman, I must keep myself under constant surveillance: how do I look as I rise from the bed, and while I walk through the store buying groceries, and while I run with the dog in the park? From childhood I was taught to survey and police and maintain my image continually, and in this role—as both surveyor and the image that is surveyed—I learned to see myself as others see me: as an object to be viewed and evaluated, a sight.”
― Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side: A Memoir