Katarina Du Pont

“Love does not happen without loss of vital self.”

A girl just like her, but born of the sea. Fire in her eyes,

“You cannot speak to anyone, because the world is empty of the living and filled with the dead,”

“The first time I saw her, everything in my head went quiet.”

“The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love.”

“Sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost, and sometimes we take it upon ourselves to burn them to ashes.”

“More and more I feel like a letter — deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”

“All the bright, precious things fade so fast. And they don’t come back.”

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.