Deborah

“Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“I lived in art, I lived in love, I never hurt a soul!

(Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore, non feci mai male ad anima viva! )”
― PUCCINI Giacomo

“They were men, and free. I was a woman, and a slave. And that’s a chasm no amount of sentimental chit-chat about shared imprisonment should be allowed to obscure.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls