Anna

“The menfolk, they die, all right. And it's us women who walk around, like the Bible says, and mourn. The menfolk, they die, and it's over for them, but we women, we have to keep on living and try to forget what they done to us.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“Don't you have any desire for vengeance?" he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian.”
― Donna Leon, Death at La Fenice

“I've been slowly wearing away at my ignorance and, as I said, I've always kept on learning. But that ignorance is still so vast that even today, at seventy, learning this quiet life, I still cherish the hope of being able to embrace everything and experience everything, the unknown and the known, yes, even those things I've known before. There's an intense longing for the known as there is for the unknown because one just can't accept that certain things won't repeat themselves.”
― Javier Marías, All Souls

“La vida, perquè sigui vida, s'ha de viure a poc a poc...”
― Mercè Rodoreda, La plaça del Diamant