Miriam

“Es ist der Absolutheitsglaube, der aus Kategorien Käfige macht. Also die vermessene Vorstellung, die eigene begrenzte, limitierte Perspektive auf diese Welt sei komplett, vollständig, universal. Der Hochmut, zu glauben, einen anderen Menschen in seiner ganzen Komplexität abschließend verstehen zu können. Oder gar eine ganze konstruierte Kategorie von Menschen abschließend verstanden zu haben.”
― Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein

“I want to live!! Take me to sea with you!”
― Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, Volume 41: Declaration of War

“Nothing makes Penstemon happier than handing a favorite book to someone who wants to read it. I’m the same. I suppose you could say this delights us although ‘delight’ is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel

“She, like all mothers, constantly casts out her thoughts, like fishing lines, towards her children, reminding herself of where they are, what they are doing, how they fare. From habit, while she sits there near the fireplace, some part of her mind is tabulating them and their whereabouts: Judith, upstairs. Susanna, next door. And Hamnet? Her unconscious mind casts, again and again, puzzled by the lack of bite, by the answer she keeps giving it: he is dead, he is gone. And Hamnet? The mind will ask again. At school, at play, out at the river? And Hamnet? And Hamnet? Where is he? Here, she tries to tell herself. Cold and lifeless, on this board, right in front of you. Look, here, see. And Hamnet? Where is”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet