The Lost Daughter Collective Quotes

“La bambina si chiese cosa sia più pericoloso: una porta dietro la quale si può solo immaginare cosa si nasconda o una finestra che espone le sue possibilità come un'esca?”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“Una donna è un catalizzatore di caos. Di ciò si trova dimostrazione nei territori che le donne abitano e poi abbandonano. Per esempi di simili territori, vedi il cuore di un padre.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“Poiché l'amore è un sistema complesso di saluti e addii che si sovrappongono, i luoghi in cui l'amore termina e inizia sono spesso celati.
[…]
E poiché la mente è un'arena misteriosa avviluppata da una fitta rete di arrivi e partenze che si intrecciano e si aggrovigliano, questa causa una grande varietà di paure.
Perciò non esistono Studiosi dell'Amore.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“[…] la figlia si renderà conto di non essere intera; e che parti del suo corpo si staccheranno e cadranno e non si ricongiungeranno.
Apprenderà di non essere una creatura solitaria, ma un intreccio di catastrofi in attesa di accadere.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“Mio padre abita in me per legge, in modo irrevocabile, così come ci sarà sempre una parte di grazia nella disgrazia.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“Daughterhood is a vocation concerned with following carefully prescribed rules, avoiding endangerment, evading threat; being a daughter means mastering the art of defense. The wonder, then, is what would happen to a daughter who rebelled.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“She had no intention of ever mothering, for, as she had recently been thinking, she was not sure what children were. Were they the way a person ensured something was left crawling and creeping on earth’s soil when she was buried? Were they the shadowy apparitions of all the people of her lineage? Were they a kind of self-centered pleasure or a kind of self-induced pain? Put less simply, were children the rubric or the body of work?”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“The people who walk through the room with two doors do not know that they do so. One of the people is you.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“do you not know the first rule of story? Endings are not invented; they are discovered.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective

“He thought that by stripping the world of a word, it would be saved. But he hadn’t considered that language lives, and when it dies, it haunts. When he said classify, I heard calcify. This is why I have not changed.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Lost Daughter Collective