Areti

“All these years, they’ve been like two little plants sharing the same plot of soil, growing around one another, contorting to make room, taking certain unlikely positions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“No, you are not the nameless master of the world, the one on whom history had lost its hold, the one who no longer felt the rain falling, who did not see the approach of night. You are no longer the inaccessible, the limpid, the transparent one. You are afraid, you are waiting. You are waiting, on Place Clichy, for the rain to stop falling.”
― Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

“How do you know when a story is done?"
"My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go.”
― Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho

“Of course, if I chose to be an optimist, there was always the possibility that, if our two parallels continued to infinity, the moment would come when they would touch.”
― Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics