Valentine

“Als ob Gewalt jemals etwas anderes ausgerichtet hätte als Zerstörung. Ihr glaubt, wenn ihr euch auf die Hinterbeine stellt, dann gibt es das Paradies auf Erden. Aber ich sage euch: So macht man kein Paradies, so macht man das Chaos.”
― Berthold Brecht

“Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“What to do when the world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?”
― Paul Auster

“My' she said. 'We're lucky that you found that place.' 'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”
― Ernest Hemingway