Mehrasa

“If he wanted to drink himself to death it was nobody’s affair but his own; his life was his life to throw away, if that’s what he wanted; but—was that what he wanted? If so, why did he suffer remorse? Obviously there was the will in him to destroy himself; part of him was bent on self-destruction—he’d be the last to deny it. But obviously, too, part was not; part held back and expressed its disapproval in remorse and shame.”
― Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend

“Remember it. Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“the sense of things
remains in the intensity of their names”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“Looking back, we see it is often casual choices which chart a path to tragedy.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me