Synthia Mattiace

“It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“He seemed happy, and she too felt strangely content with life.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“who can carry
The incineration of a Universe?”
― Ovid, Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses