Lobna Boukadi

“Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need.”
― Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

“I started to make a literary being of myself, someone who lives as if her experiences were to be written down someday.”
― Annie Ernaux, Mémoire de fille

“Unfortunately, I must also agree with you.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Philosophy in the Present

“All of us, more or less, wear masks. Because without masks we can’t survive in this violent world. Beneath an evil-spirit mask lies the natural face of an angel, beneath an angel’s mask lies the face of an evil spirit. It’s impossible to have just one or the other. That’s who we are. And that’s Carnaval. Schumann was able to see the many faces of humanity—the masks and the real faces—because he himself was a deeply divided soul, a person who lived in the stifling gap in between the two.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories