"The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go through a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness." -- Gustave Flaubert, “Sentimental Education”
“She was tied to the moon by long threads of red tangled blood. She moved like a woman tied to the moon … it enveloped her and it opened her to an absolute night without dawn.” - Anaïs Nin.