Helly

“I wanted to be a mirror. I assembled fragments according to a before and an after, I set one inside the other, a story came out. It happened naturally, and I did it constantly.”
― Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

“Only what slips through one's fingers, only what is never expressed in words, has no thoughts, exists completely. That is the price of proximity: you don't see it. Don't know that it's there. Then it is over, then you see it.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Autumn

“Thіѕ рrосеѕѕ of іdеntіfуіng patterns іn уоur unсоnѕсіоuѕ mіnd аnd аltеrіng уоur соnѕсіоuѕ асtіоnѕ іn rеѕроnѕе tо thеm іѕ what Jung саllеd іndіvіduаtіоn. Thrоugh іndіvіduаtіоn, wе саn соuntеr оur nеgаtіvе сhаrасtеr trаіtѕ, unlосk nеw сrеаtіvе tаlеntѕ, аnd соmе tо tеrmѕ wіth оur реrѕоnаl ѕtrugglеѕ.”
― EasyPrint, ANALYSIS OF Man and His Symbols: An explanation of Jung's theories about archetypes and the unconscious By Carl Jung

“Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1