Verocalder

“La verdadera duración de una vida, por más cosas que diga el Diccionario Biográfico Nacional, siempre es discutible.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“She felt I was good at putting myself in another’s shoes but not so great at kicking off my own and having fun. Sometimes I’d get stuck in the other person for too long because that was easier than staying inside myself.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“Once more, she adjusted her sense of the morning. It was remarkable to her – exhilarating and exhausting – how many times this could happen: how many adjustments a person could make, mining deep for a new seam of resources, despairing, altogether, of their existence, then finding them unexpectedly in the air, like the moon unsought at lunchtime.”
― Kate Briggs, The Long Form