Olivia Lopez

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon ballerina

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“one might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism—a belief that we could decide for ourselves how we would live, what would become of us.”
― Ariel Levy, The Rules Do Not Apply