Mélanie

“Quand l’amour est doux et calme comme un océan d’été, pourquoi anticiper les tempêtes ?”
― Mélissa Da Costa, Les femmes du bout du monde

“We remain prisoners of certain unconscious schemas of thought. In particular, we do not see how girls and boys growing up inflict a self amputation, suffer a sort of right of passage that marks their allegiance to patriarchy. They follow a culturally scripted journey toward female selflessness and masculine detachment. Patriarchy harms both men and women by forcing men to act as if they don't have or need relationships and women to act as if they don't have or need a self.”
― Mona Chollet

“As you get older, I think the most difficult thing to accept is that there are no more prospects. There are no more big projects, no more goals to attain, no more dreams. The only goal is to delay the inevitable as long as possible and to do it with as much grace as possible.”
― Zoe Brisby, The Car Share

“The world is full of dreams that never come true. They evaporate and settle like dew in the sky where they transform into the stars in the night.”
― Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night