Anastasiia

“130. We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?—No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink—Here you are again, it says, and so am I.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds