Evelina Copa

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar