Hatred Would Have Been Easier. With Hatred, I Would Have Known What To Do.

“Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do.”

— Margaret Atwood, from ‘Cat’s Eye’, first published in 1988.

“[…], so the evil things from my past are kept close and not forgotten. Forgetting would be to let them be born again in another form.”

— The Village, dir. by M. Night Shyamalan (2004)

“[…], the eyes large, nocturnal ̶”

— Margaret Atwood, from ‘Cat’s Eye’, first published in 1988. 

““It’s very quiet now,” she thought. She opened her eyes wide, and she heard the silence spinning its soft endless web.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from ‘Prelude’, first published in 1918.

to become or to be?

TO BE

“[…] to protect the extraordinary feeling of happiness that still remained with her. Covered up from observation it might survive, she felt.”

— Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Years’, originally published in 1937.