Sheziss

“Where does she begin, and where do I end? she thought... On they drove. They were two living people, driving across London; two sparks of life enclosed in two separate bodies; and those sparks of life enclosed in two separate bodies are at this moment, she thought, driving past a picture palace. But what is this moment; and what are we?”
― Virginia Woolf, The Years

“I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone.”
― Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?

“Some creatures are born to live, others to work, others to watch life. I had a small, miserable role as spectator. Impossible to get out of it. Impossible to free myself. A dreadful grief was the only reality for me then.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“Don't ask from where I have come, My home is far, far away”
― Sanmao