Charlotte

“I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”
― Louise Gluck

“Suffering feels religious if you do it right.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall – like seeking love in a whorehouse.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
― Clarice Lispector