Laura

“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“do not understand why this sentence is in the past tense. The World still speaks to me every day.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Si habia dolor en perder lo propio dolía dos veces perder lo ganado, el cariño ganado, el abrazo ganado, la confianza ganada, ¿adónde se va ese esfuerzo cuando es el otro el que se desprende primero?, ¿adónde se va el arrojo que permitió salirse de uno mismo forzando cada milímetro para llegar hasta el otro que con soltura habitaba el mundo? ¿Adónde van los que se quedan?.”
― Salomé Esper, La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante