theia

“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

“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

“I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

“—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