Sofía

“You know, there’s a lot about ourselves that we can’t change—it’s just the way we’re born. But some parts of us are shaped by what we see. And how we’re treated by other people. How we’re made to feel.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push

“and nothing about my life – the job, the apartment, the desires, the love affairs – struck me as permanent. I felt anything was possible, that there were no doors shut behind me, and that out there somewhere, as yet unknown, there were people who would love and admire me and want to make me happy. Maybe that explains in some way the openness I felt toward the world – maybe without knowing it, I was anticipating my future, I was watching for signs.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Así que no pude ver al caballero». El fiscal le preguntó si al menos me había visto llorar. Pérez contestó que no. Entonces fue al fiscal a quien le tocó decir: «Los miembros del jurado tomarán buena nota». Pero mi abogado se enfadó. Le preguntó a Pérez, con un tono que me pareció exagerado, «si había visto que no llorase». Pérez dijo: «No». El público se rio. Y mi abogado, remangándose de un lado, dijo con acento perentorio: «¡Esta es la imagen de este juicio. ¡Todo es verdad y nada es verdad!.”
― Albert Camus