jane

“Bien des choses se sont détachées de moi. J'ai survécu à certain désirs; j'ai perdu des amis, les uns par la mort, d'autres par ma simple incapacité à traverser la rue.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.”
― Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

“Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“--I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires----
"You are not!" She brought one little fist down onto the other. "You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise