Marianna

“No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.”
― Julio Cortázar

“I was spelling out a message that would allow me to talk to myself and to others. The novel that emerged was about things I could not speak of in life, in some cases literally. I would lie, or I would feel a weight on my chest as if someone was sitting there. But when the novel was done, I could read from it. A prosthetic voice.”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“Know how to will, and you will be free, and will lead.”
― Ivan Turgenev, First Love

“For my country has taken so little care
of me that even the sharpest spy could
go over my whole spirit and would
detect no native stain there.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems