Chiona

“Ich dachte, dass man sich von aufgeplusterten Abschieden nicht ins Bockshorn jagen lassen darf, dass man ihnen sehr wohl von der Schippe springen kann, denn solang keiner stirbt, ist jeder Abschied verhandelbar.”
― Mariana Leky, Was man von hier aus sehen kann

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.”
― José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

“Like former lovers […] [friends] are the ones whom, from time to time, I seek out on the internet, in the phone directories of distant cities, in the faces I pass on the street. For it’s almost as if they still hold some Proustian key to the mystery of lost time, the answer to the question of who we were when we were friends, and of what has become of us since.”
― Francis Prose