Frida

“What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“]Sardis
often turning her thoughts here

]
you like a goddess
and in your song most of all she rejoiced.

But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women
as sometimes at sunset
the rosyfingered moon

surpasses all the stars. And her light
stretches over salt sea
equally and flowerdeep fields.

And the beautiful dew is poured out
and roses bloom and frail
chervil and flowering sweetclover.

But she goes back and forth remembering
gentle Atthis and in longing
she bites her tender mind”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.”
― Mark Twain