Ellen Modlin

“It all began with Adam. He was the first man to tell a joke--or a lie. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
- Notebook, 1867”
― Mark Twain

“I experienced pleasure like a future pain.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“Была чудная ночь, такая ночь, которая разве только и может быть тогда, когда мы молоды, любезный читатель.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Белые ночи

“From the very beginning, and throughout the whole of our affair, I had the privilege of knowing what we all find out in the end: the man we love is a complete stranger.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion