Ernesto

“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“El alfabeto de mi infancia, el que me observa ahora mismo desde las hileras oscuras del teclado de mi ordenador, es una constelación de letras errantes que los fenicios embarcaron en sus naves.”
― Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco

“He had carefully placed stickers with prayers and invocations on the back windshield: We will reach our destination if God wills it, Our lives are in your hands, my Lord, and other declarations that preemptively exonerated him from all responsibility in the event of an accident, and even granted him road privileges.”
― Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm