Maryanne Rafka

“Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

“It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

“A word may give me its meaning, but first it suppresses it. For me to be able to say, 'This woman' I must somehow take her flesh and blood reality away from her, cause her to be absent, annihilate her. The word gives me the being, but it gives it to me deprived of being. The word is the absence of that being, its nothingness, what is left of it when it has lost being - the very fact that it does not exist.”
― Maurice Blanchot, Literature and the Right to Death

“I don't judge people. I don't think we should/”
― Ruth Rendell