Corene Nodarse

“I’d put myself in Hell for eternity if it let you be in Paradise for a day.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir

“Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“As for the use of the bomb, she would say, “It was war and we had to expect it.” And then she would add, “Shikata ga nai,” a Japanese expression as common as, and corresponding to, the Russian word “nichevo”: “It can’t be helped. Oh, well. Too bad.” Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: “Da ist nichts zu machen. There’s nothing to be done about it.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima