Alexandra

“As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“For now, this afternoon, you saw and touched
my heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties