Camila

“She wanted to be liked. Perhaps this explained the parties, the crystalline laughter, the well-coiffed hair, the rehearsed smile. She thought that men such as her father could be stern and men could be cold like Virgil, but women needed to be liked or they’d be in trouble. A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Os olhos, por enquanto, são a porta do engano; duvide deles, dos seus, não de mim.”
― João Guimarães Rosa, Primeiras Estórias

“A wife", he says, "should have no secrets from her husband."
"I don't have any secrets," I tell him.
"The ribbon."
"The ribbon is not a secret; it's just mine.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“Why do you want to hide it from me?'
'I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories