Pheona Ilagan

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.” ​— ​Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Mind

“Let her always need my love, as she does now, and let me always be capable of offering it this freely, unreservedly, and unconditionally.”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Mind

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...” ​— ​Eileen Chang”
― Penny Reid, Dr. Strange Beard

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.” ​— ​Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
― Penny Reid, Beard in Mind