Delphine

“Beauty meant that you were good. And being good meant being happy. Happiness can be defined all kinds of ways, but human beings, consciously or unconsciously, are always pulling for their own version of happiness. Even people who want to die see death as a kind of solace, and view ending their lives as the only way to make it there. Happiness is the base unit of consciousness, our single greatest motivator.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“Every page of words was a chance for escape, a chance to suicide into a life where the brain was something more than a heavy bundle of gray worms, into a place where the body lost its origins and confines and mutated endlessly. Whole worlds cupped between my hands.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, Verge

“I wondered if motherhood held such appeal for me because it was a masochism you couldn't ever let go of.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket

“Having a child is both the most rational and irrational decision possible, in this world. This fucking awful, beautiful world, which I can't stop loving, though I have considered it, I have evaluated and counted the ways.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Blue Ticket