Difficult Story Quotes

“«A volte, se stringi troppo a te la persona che ami, finisci col soffocarla. Si può amare qualcuno così tanto da perdere se stessi. E il rischio è proprio questo: non abbandonarsi all’amore, ma perdere se stessi. Perché cosa succede se le cose vanno male? Che di te resta solo un guscio vuoto. Non hai più niente....»”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“In this case Karen’s child was her story. And all the world was waiting greedily for its deliverance even if they didn’t yet know its name or the uncomfortable shape of it and the peculiar contours that altogether were sure to test the foundations upon which they had built their holiest of houses and coziest of dens. They only knew that all of history was in want of a definitive accounting and that such had already been written and then ensepulchered by prophets unsung and that their eventual unveiling was nothing less than the birthright of all humankind.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause