Irene

“Così dunque la vita é rimasta un mistero. E io stesso, per me, sono ancora il primo mistero.”
― Elsa Morante, L'isola di Arturo

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History