Daniel

“When it came to love, we found ourselves confronting a foreign language. We did not know how to estimate or value things that were free. The things that were free – sex, conversation, the smell of grass in summer – unsettled us. We sought to commodify them and create outcomes from them. But they seemed to belong to everybody: we couldn’t keep them for ourselves.”
― Rachel Cusk, Parade

“to be able to live your life without considering every action in the light of practical necessity seems to me an almost unacceptable privilege.”
― Rachel Cusk, Parade

“I felt a surge of grief, I, who had never known men, as I stood in front of this man who had wanted to overcome fear and despair to enter eternity upright and furious.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Sorrow holds me because it has tentacles; I am its sustenance, it stores me. I need to get out of here.”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder