Aliena

“The girl who said 'no' — she doesn't exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Vuelvo a la vida con mi muerte al hombro, abominando cuanto he escrito: escombro del hombre aquel que fui cuando callaba.”
― Blas de Otero

“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson