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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“...Amor mío, no te quiero por vos ni por mí ni por los dos juntos, no te quiero porque la sangre me llame a quererte, te quiero porque no sos mía, porque estás del otro lado, ahí donde me invitás a saltar y no puedo dar el salto, porque en lo más profundo de la posesión no estás en mí, no te alcanzo, no paso de tu cuerpo, de tu risa, hay horas en que me atormenta que me ames (cómo te gusta usar el verbo amar, con qué cursilería lo vas dejando caer sobre los platos y las sábanas y los autobuses), me atormenta tu amor que no me sirve de puente porque un puente no se sostiene de un solo lado, jamás Wright ni Le Corbusier van a hacer un puente sostenido de un solo lado, y no me mires con esos ojos de pájaro, para vos la operación del amor es tan sencilla, te curarás antes que yo y eso que me querés como yo no te quiero. Claro que te curarás, porque vivís en la salud, después de mí será cualquier otro, eso se cambia como los corpiños...”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep.
You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.
You deserve a lover who wants to dance with you, who goes to paradise every time he looks into your eyes and never gets tired of studying your expressions.
You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn’t afraid to fall.
You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”
― Estefanía Mitre

“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.”
― Charles Bukowski

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“Pero dentro de mí todo es tan áspero, tan espinoso.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“Y le dije: por favor, no me hagas daño, por favor, no te rías de mi amor. Y luego le dije: por favor, acéptame como alguien cuya sola alegría es tu existencia en este lugar miserable.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“seguirás siendo alguien muy ridícula, muy melancólica, pintoresca y graciosa durante unos minutos, fatigante y atrozmente aburrida en la convivencia diaria.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“Tengo miedo y no puedo vivir en este mundo y lo quiero, claro que lo quiero, pero no sé cómo se hace.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“porque yo no pedí nacer en forma de signo de interrogación”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“¿no te da miedo la locura? —¡Por favor! Es lo único maravilloso en esta sucia vida de mierda.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“Quien siente mucho, se jode y no encuentra palabras y entonces no habla y es ésa su condena.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“Qué fácil callar, ser serena y objetiva con los seres que no me interesan verdaderamente, a cuyo amor o amistad no aspiro. Soy entonces calma, cautelosa, perfecta dueña de mí misma. Pero con los poquísimos seres que me interesan… Allí está la cuestión absurda: soy una convulsión, un grito, sangre aullando.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“Escribir un poema es reparar la herida fundamental, la desgarradura. Porque todos estamos heridos.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“La poesía produce una soledad tan bella…”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

“La rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa
hasta pulverizarse los ojos.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana

“A mi noche no la mata ningún sol.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Poesía completa

“Era una mujer irónica, con un inmenso sentido del humor y un gran poder de seducción, que tenía un compromiso radical, con la escritura. Habría quedecir, para empezar a comprenderla, que ella era un acto literario en sí mismo, que ella no estaba escindida de su literatura. Ella era su literatura. Y era una mujer fuerte, que seguramente hubiera pensado que el mito que se construyó en su derredor, más que colaborar con la comprensión de su poesía, parece querer domesticarla. Eligió decir determinadas cosas y no otras, construirse de determinada manera en los textos. Reinventar la lengua para poder decirse. Y en eso se le fue la vida. Y en eso no hay casualidad.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Travesuras de la niña mala

“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Please dont' look at me like that," she said.
"How am I looking?"
"Like your heart is breaking."
"It is, sunshine.”
― Cherrie Lynn, Rock Me