Ila

“But she accepted the fact as she accepted all the things that happened to her, expecting to be ill-treated, to be made a victim, ultimately to be destroyed, either by unknown forces or by human beings. The fate seemed always to have been waiting for her, even since time began. Only love might have saved her from it. But she had never looked for love. Her part was to suffer; that was known and accepted. Fatality brought resignation. It was no use fighting her fate. She knew she has been beaten before the start.”
― Anna Kavan, Ice

“Ogni continente, ogni terra emersa (così come ogni oceano) è una specie di Arca di Noè che trasporta con sé una miriade di esseri viventi verso un altrove lontano da qualsiasi origine. Con la differenza, però, che non ci sarà mai fine al viaggio, poichè tale movimento non è la conseguenza di un'inondazione o di un evento climatico accidentale.
La condizione dell'essere al mondo è una condizione di migrazione: non un viaggio da un luogo all'altro, ma una forma di moto perpetuo - una deriva.”
― Emanuele Coccia, Metamorfosi

“I have tried to return to an "untainted" version of myself, one that was oblivious to the visceral natures of pain and loss. I obsess over an imagined place of "purity", where the ghosts of my past do not roam, and I realize that as vital as it is to release my hauntings, I cannot return to a self who is untouched by pain. I do not live in a world without pain, and I cannot pretend that pain does not continue as I continue too.”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

“What I'm saying is, the pain is in the aftermath, more than it is the break.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea