Klaudia

“One can speak best through stories. Things only come alive in this way. This is because such things are the children of our experiences. They are conceived during big events in our lives, born when we begin to reflect on those incidents and then grow with us as our appreciation for the memories that brought them into being also lives and thrives.”
― Ali Hussain, A Childhood Between Rivers and Mountains

“[Marianne] feels that even she doesn't know what her family are like, that she's never adequate in her attempts to describe them, that she oscillates between exaggerating their behaviour, which makes her feel guilty, or downplaying it, which also makes her feel guilty, but a different guilt, more inwardly directed. Joanna believes that she knows what Marianne's family are like, but how can she, how can anyone, when Marianne herself doesn't?”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“GOLDBERG. Of course, now. Time’s getting on. Round the corner, remember? Mention my name.”
― Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party

“How do migrating birds know which one to follow? What if the lead bird just wants to be alone?”
― Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid