Seneca

“The Gothic heroine,” film scholar Tania Modleski says, "tries to convince herself that her suspicions are unfounded, that, since she loves him, he must be trustworthy and that she will have failed as a woman if she does not implicitly believe in him.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“They are simply a memory, and as you overwrite that data card, erasing them forever, you feel an irrational twinge of loss.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks.
Memory itself is a form of architecture.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“And so it goes that, even as children, we understand something we cannot articulate. The diagnosis never changes. We will always be hungry, will always want. Our bodies and minds will always crave something, even if we don't recognize it.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House