Victoria

“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa