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

“I can give anything up, because nothing is essential when you refuse to imprison life in a narrative.”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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

“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