Lizzie

“Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.”
― Franz Kafka

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.”
― Franz Kafka