#her lover

Alexandria born Greek author Dora Rosetti (1908-1989), which is a pen name, has woven together a tumultuous story of love and jealousy and societal expectations which, when I think properly about it, is beautiful and heartbreaking and important. Certain parts of it were also really well written, especially since the main character, who is also named Dora, is a very emotional being who is quick to feel, quick to love, quick to loathe and then change her mind. It's this back and forth of it all, of her and Lisa and their ever changing moods and emotions, which became tiring. And in retrospect I understand the constant hesitation, I just wish it had been written differently. It didn't help that many things had no buildup, and that we switched from scene to scene constantly and still felt as if we kept missing things. It might be the translation, maybe the time period it was written in. I'm not sure. I'm sad that a novel which, according to the introduction, has been so important for the queer community but also the feminist movement in Greece didn't fully do it for me. I feel like it needed a round of edits, but I'm not sure how things worked back then, especially for a novel like this. It was published in Rosetti's lifetime, but she ended up burning most of the remaining copies due to the backlash. And when the book was rediscovered, Rosetti asked for it to be published after her death. And that is the saddest part of it all. How can I dislike a book when I know what it cost for it to be here?

I could imagine them doing this in their free time away from the world... I can also say I feel sorry for whoever is watching them and whoever Logan is giving that stare to...

Maybe such people exist in another world, who would bare themselves with people they love.

We’re gonna be okay. You can rest now.

I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this.