Marija

“there's things i wanna say to you, but i'll just let you live. like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“One evening a vampire rises and realizes what he has feared perhaps for decades, that he simply wants no more of life at any cost. That whatever style or fashion or shape of existence made immortality attractive to him has been swept off the face of the earth. And nothing remains to offer freedom from despair except the act of killing. And that vampire goes out to die. No one will find his remains. No one will know where he has gone. And often no one around him – should he still seek the company of other vampires – no one will know that he is in despair. He will have ceased long ago to speak of himself or of anything. He will vanish.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“«Per ottenere qualcosa, bisogna sacrificarne un’altra».
Secondo mamma era ovvio, eppure le persone cercavano sempre di ottenere qualcosa senza sacrificare un bel niente. Quello però si chiama furto, quando qualcuno ci guadagna e qualcun altro ci perde. Si tratta di una felicità costruita sull’infelicità altrui. Sono le leggi che regolano il mondo, mamma ne parlava spesso.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women