Théa

“Nous étions des enfants debout sur une chaise, fiers de dépasser d’une tête les grandes personnes. Les circonstances nous hissaient, mais nous restions incapables. Et si du fait même de notre inexpérience, certaines choses compliquées nous paraissaient toutes simples, des choses toutes simples, par contre, devenaient des obstacles.”
― Raymond Radiguet

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même.”
― Albert Cohen, Book of My Mother