Flavia Topan

“The more of myself I transferred into words, the more obvious it became that words were powerless to express anything. Or, rather, it’s like this—words can create something of their own, but you can’t become words. Words are cheats. They promise to carry you off on the voyage into eternity, and then they set out in secret under full sail, stranding you on the shoreline.

But the most important point is that reality doesn’t fit into any words. Reality strikes you dumb. Everything important that happens in life is beyond words. There comes a point when you understand that if what you have experienced can be expressed in words, it means you haven’t experienced anything.”
― Mikhail Shishkin, Письмовник

“And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?”
― Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore

“Hope is the hardest love we carry.”
― Jane Hirshfield, The Lives of the Heart

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”
― José Ortega y Gasset