โThe courage to be happy also includes the courage to be disliked. When you have gained that courage, your interpersonal relationships will all at once change into things of lightness.โ
โ ichiro kishimi, the courage to be disliked
โI suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.โ
โ Donna Tartt, The Secret History
you cannot study literature without also studying history, myths and legends, religions, sometimes art and music and many more topics and this is why i love it so much i think
โWe were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.โ
โ Margaret Atwood, The Handmaidโs Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like foodโlexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.