Thought daughter
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
from the great Hanif Kureishi —
"One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood."
"One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood."
Junot Díaz • Junot Díaz on Substack
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan
“Ser extranjera como lo he sido casi siempre significa que debo esforzarme mucho más que los nativos lo cual me ha mantenido alerta y me ha obligado a desarrollar flexibilidad para adaptarme a diversos ambientes”
Extracto de mi país inventado, Isabel Allende
