May > May's Quotes

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Tampoco se puede ser humano si cargas los fantasmas que no te corresponden, se llama individualidad”
― Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

“Es importante tener un cómplice. No es indispensable, pero parece buena idea contar con alguien que también provenga de aquel lugar. Ojos que conocieron la misma guerra, que perdieron la misma patria.”
― Alaíde Ventura Medina, Entre los rotos

“El problema del silencio es que siempre gana las discusiones.”
― Alaíde Ventura, Entre los rotos

“Entre los rotos nos reconocemos fácilmente. Nos atraemos y repelemos en igual medida.”
― Alaíde Ventura, Entre los rotos

“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.”
― bell hooks

“Una mujer puede hacer infinitas cosas pero, si no tienen un amor, socialmente será reconocida como vacía, como sujeto incompleto.”
― Tamara Tenenbaum, El fin del amor: querer y coger en el siglo XXI

“El feminismo no consiste en cuestionar el deseo de las otras, sino el propio, aunque sea doloroso, sobre todo cuando la sensación es que eso que anhelamos no nos está haciendo bien.”
― Tamara Tenenbaum, El fin del amor: querer y coger en el siglo XXI