“To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
― A History of My Brief Body
― A History of My Brief Body
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
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“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Letters Home
― Letters Home
“I like my hair messy. My love wild. And my sex aggressive. But I’m still a sensitive woman, just with passion.”
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