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“Ուզում եմ հենց հիմա նստել ու մի հրովարտակ գրել Աստծուն՝ թող այսուհետև նոր տարին սկսվի հոկտեմբերի մեկից, մանավանդ որ ծառերը զարդարելու կարիք էլ չի լինի, ծառերին լիքը գույն է, աշնան յուրաքանչյուր ծառ՝ տոնածառ է: Ձրի տոնածառ…”
― Vardges Petrosyan, Դեղատուն Անի

“Waiting is also a place: it is wherever you wait. For me it’s this room. I am a blank, here, between parentheses. Between other people The knock comes at my door. Cora, with the tray.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts