Ghada Laabidi

“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

I want.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“I remembered my New
Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to
write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in
his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of
whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a
hoax.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Finally he asked, "Have I lost you to another man?". "It is not that you have lost me to another man, you have lost me to a life of my own. I am finding myself for the first time".”
― Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

“Plus sa vie est infâme,plus l'homme y tient; elle est alors une protestation,une vengeance de tous les instants.”
― Honoré de Balzac