Jae Grode

“Is the whole world doomed to emotional trauma?”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Robinson had thoroughly enjoyed her evening at the opera. Her only previous experience had been a performance of Wagner, to which the Assistant Commissioner, an avid Wagnerian, had taken her a year before. It was a strange but admirable British characteristic, she had thought at the time, how little antagonism was directed against the great artistic creations of the enemy, even of Richard Wagner, the great idol of Hitler.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

“You’d think the earth
would long ago surrender
but instead she flowers,
rising from her meager dirt
to fill the sky with color.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Distruggere l'uomo è difficile, quasi quanto crearlo: non è stato agevole, non è stato breve, ma ci siete riusciti, tedeschi. Eccoci docili sotto i vostri sguardi: da parte nostra nulla più avete a temere: non atti di rivolta, non parole di sfida, neppure uno sguardo giudice.”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man / The Truce