Silvia Dibi

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect