Chetna

“He had a conventional notion of culture. He thought that going to the theater or ballet and keeping up-to-date with the movie listings made you cultured. I, on the other hand, learned to believe in the depth of experience: returning ten times to the art gallery near my house to look at that Kandinsky again because I identified with its shapes, on a deep level, in my soul. I didn’t care at all whether it was fashionable and I didn’t attend the concerts my father timidly suggested. For me music worked better in the solitude of my room than it did live.”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“And thus fell the verdict, light as spring rain, regarding Låke's future, it fell over the dining table one night in February.”
― Annika Norlin

“Being poor or being lonely could be either fortunate or unfortunate, but the truth is that the distinction was meaningless. Whether we were fortunate or not, we were still different, and that’s all there was to it.”
― Bae Suah, Nowhere to Be Found

“All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that's not real. It should hold you like the earth.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein