Desireé

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
― René Char

“The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”
― Koji Suzuki, Birthday

“Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus”
― Emma Cline, The Girls