Cortney Schmidt

“I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.”
― Anais Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus