theia

“Have you ever thought about the enormous courage of trees? I have, and it seems to me amazing, The Lord dumps them down and they just gotta stick it, no matter what happens.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“—What should I do? I can't bear living. Life is so short and I can't bear living.
—But there's so much, Lóri, that you still don't know. And there's a place where despair is a light and a love.
— And afterward?
— Afterward is Nature.
— You're calling death Nature.
—No, Lóri, I'm calling us Nature.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“Listen, who hasn't waited for something to happen? I know folks died waiting. I know hurt is a wandering song. I was lost in my fear.”
― Reginald Dwayne Betts

“Women disappear, and even if you are famous, it can happen without a sound, without a ripple. I have to assume that one night, when the stars were gleaming over-head, she met a devil on the road like so many of my friends did, and he offered her a spread of cards, flipping them between his pale fingers. Alcoholism, born-again reverence, madness, a quiet cottage, a noisy car wreck, a lonely house on the edge of the desert, a book she could use as a tomb, a single line etched in the boardwalk, they would have flickered by, and taking a deep breath, she would have closed her eyes and chosen.”
― Nghi Vo, Siren Queen