Vania Coval

“We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“... The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. p. xxxii”
― Eve Ensler

“Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales”
― Forrest Carter

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a pain that often sat like a nosebleed behind his forehead the moment he tried to make up his mind to do something.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities