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“Nie sú to povery. Ja som Smrtka, Vesna. Som temnota, som večnosť, som okraj mince života. Preto ľudia okolo mňa zomierajú, preto nikto pri mne nevydrží žiť dlhšie ako niekoľko dní či týždňov. Ja nešírim choroby a nešťastia, ja som choroba a nešťastie. Som skaza. Som koniec jednej časti a začiatok niečoho nového. Vtedy vo Vlčom jazere sa medzi mnou a svetom mŕtvych navždy vytvorilo prepojenie. Od toho dňa, od toho momentu ma neopustil chlad. Je so mnou navždy. Pretože ja som chlad. Pretože ja som smrť. Pretože ja som dcéra zimy.”
― Vladimira Sebova, Dcéra zimy

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Prstami prejdem po tvrdej obálke. Keď ju otvorím, ucítim vôňu papiera, vôňu novej knihy. Nič nevonia krajšie ako nová kniha. Je to prísľub. Odpútanie od minulosti. Šanca na zabudnutie dneška, šanca na lepšie zajtrajšky. Útek od reality, vstup do nových svetov. Radí, zabáva, učí... Zastavuje čas alebo ho prinúti bežať rýchlejšie. Chce nás rozosmiať, rozplakať alebo prinútiť myslieť. A my ju necháme.”
― Vladimíra Šebová, Insomnia

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“I felt I needed to hide a little. My mind needed a smaller world to roam.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“There is nothing more heartbreaking than a squandered opportunity, a missed chance. I knew about stuff like that. I'd been young once. So many dreams had been dashed. But I dashed them myself. I wanted to be safe, whole, have a future of certainty. One makes mistakes when there is confusion between having a future at all and having the future one wants.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters