Julia

“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“We die all the time to avoid being killed.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Asya, my grandmother said, don’t complicate the point. We named you after a whole continent and you’re filming a park.”
― Aysegül Savas, The Anthropologists