Dani

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alter of monogamy”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love’s pre-eternal sadness.”
― Odysseus Elytis, Open Papers - Selected Essays