Zara

“Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]

I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.”
― Anne Lister

“Am certainly attentive to her but cautiously, without any impropriety that could be laid hold of. Yet my manners are certainly peculiar, not all masculine but rather softly gentleman-like. I know how to please girls.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?