J.J. Rodeo

“I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“آدم‌ها می‌آیند
زندگی می‌کنند
می‌میرند
و می‌روند
اما
فاجعه‌ی زندگی تو
آن هنگام آغاز می‌شود
که آدمی می‌ميرد
اما
نمی‌رود
می‌ماند
و نبودنش در بودن تو
چنان ته ‌نشین می‌شود
که تو می‌میری در حالی که زنده­‌ای
و او زنده می‌شود در حالی که مرده است

از مزار که بازگشتی
قبرستان را به خانه نیاور”
― آزاده طاهايي / Azadeh Tahaei

“هرچه قضاوت آنها درباره من سخت بوده ‌باشد نمی‌دانند که من پیشتر خودم را سخت‌تر قضاوت کرده‌ام”
― صادق هدایت, زنده به‌گور

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five