Michal

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

“Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski