Gergana

“I hadn’t gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it’s only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you’re time-traveling. In this life we grow backwards.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Attention regulated by visuality generates low attentiveness, especially when visual objects take a commodity form, that is, exist in abundance, compete with one another, are on view, and become easily interchangeable. ...Visual evaluation in a large market of bodies as images entails devaluation through low attentiveness.”
― Eva Illouz, El fin del amor: Una sociología de las relaciones negativas

“Men have an annoying way of doing that. They touch your back as though there’s a handle there, and direct you where they want you to go. Or they place their hand on top of your head, paternally. Men and their hands. You’ve got to watch them every minute.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“Natural as it is to seek perfection in one way or another, the archetype fulfills itself in completeness, and this is a teleiosis of quite another kind. Where the archetype predominates, completeness is forced upon us against all our conscious strivings, in accordance with the archaic nature of the archetype. The individual may strive after perfection …but must suffer from the opposite of his intentions for the sake of his completeness.”
― C.G. Jung, Aion