“I don’t resist the seductions of darkness.”
— Jeanette Winterson - from Why I Adore the Night
“I don’t resist the seductions of darkness.”
— Jeanette Winterson - from Why I Adore the Night
“I am tired of being human. And angry at feeling so much love. Some days I am angry just to be alive.”
– Clarice Lispector, from Selected Crônicas; “Excess and Privation ,”
“It’s like that, sometimes. Suddenly you want to end it all.”
—
Magda Szabó, from “The Door,” published c. November 1987
I’ve never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it’s like an animal.
She’s not eating. She’s not sleeping. She’s whimpering. She’s sluggish. She’s not herself. The least thing and the tears come.
She knew herself by heart too, and was sick of the old story.
