Valeria

“You

And first,
before him
and before her
and before them
there was you.

Never forget that.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“It’s not that I hate men,” the woman says. “I’m just terrified of them. And I’m okay with that fear.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties