“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“160 - Falar com cautela.
Com os rivais por cautela, com os demais por decência. Sempre há tempo para enviar a palavra, mas não para voltar atrás. Há-se de falar como em testamento, que para menos palavras, menos pleitos. No que não importa se há de ensaiar para o que importa. Há algo de divino no mistério. A fala leviana perto está de ser vencida e convencia.”
Source: ORÁCULO DE BOLSO E ARTE DA PRUDÊNCIA
“Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. 'You must pay attention to me,' he urged. 'If something happens you will be able to write the book that I may never get written. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget that.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“Sometimes, the only way to hear yourself is to stay silent and color.”
Source: Garden of Tranquility: A Cozy Coloring Book for Relaxation, Meditation, Mindfulness, and Stress Relief
“Ahora te recuerdo
y quizás tu muerte
me haría menos daño
que tu exilio.”
Source: Hotel nube. En el mudo corazón del bosque
“To choose to be alone is to bait the trap, to create a space the demons cannot resist entering. And that's the good news; the demons that enter can be named, written about, and tamed through the miracle of the healing word, the miracle of art, the miracle of silence.”
Source: At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life
“My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.”
Source: Girl in the Dark
“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
Source: Ellipsis
“Perhaps if my mother had been a witch like me with powers of her own, she would have taken me under her wing and guided me on my singular path. But she did not, and I was left to discover what made me different on my own, stumbling and groping along.”
Source: A Lullaby for Witches
“I don't belong on earth, my soul is from the stars.
I'm visiting this planet for a while so i can help people listen to their hearts.”