Zoë

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight fist that socked at her heart. And the first part was over. This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms held tight around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. It might have been five minutes she listened or half the night. The second part was black-colored--a slow march. Not sad, but like the whole world was dead and black and there was no use thinking back how it was before. One of those horn kind of insturments played a sad and silver tune. Then the music rose up angry and with excitement underneath. And finally the black march again.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Des trombes marines se dressaient là accumulées et en apparence immobiles comme les piliers noirs d'un temple. Elles supportaient, renflées à leurs extrémités, la voûte sombre et basse de la tempête, mais, au travers des déchirures de la voûte, des pans de lumière tombaient, et la pleine lune rayonnait, entre les piliers, sur les dalles froides de la mer.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“For one is free from it only when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of ones own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self