“People believe exactly what they want to believe – and they want most of all to believe in their own fears.”

— Josephine Ruby, from Daphne and Velma: The Vanishing Girl

“Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story..The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.”

— Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me (via iwriteaboutfeminism)

Telephone booth surrounded by snow in Hokkaido, Japan (2021)

La souffrance a tout consumé en moi, sauf l'amour.

Christiane Singer

Self-improvement starts when self-denial ends!

— Unknown

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”

— Haruki Murakami