blacksmith

“Yes, well, it's two contradictory thoughts, she said, the possibility of ending my life and wanting more life. So what? And here are two more contradictions: I don't believe in God, but I talk to something like God. I ask this presence to feel for me when I have cut down my own feelings.”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar