You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.