Adriana

“It's the strange thing about you mystics, how often your little ecstasies wear a skirt.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men