Feline

“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“I know I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself on the page, inhabit it; I have to remember never to put in more than is necessary, never overlay, never furnish or adorn.”
― Valeria Luiselli, Los ingrávidos

“Ik ben niets meer, niets meer van mijzelf, geen gedachte, geen gevoel, ik ben alleen de oppervlakte, waar de zon mij raakt; de oude huid van de slang, waaruit ze is verdwenen. Zo is het eenvoudig te bestaan: als afgeworpen omhulsel van een kronkelende inwendigheid.”
― Patricia De Martelaere, Nachtboek van een slapeloze

“Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me