Gabriel M.

“The past is not just that which happened to you. Sometimes it is that which you just imagined.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“Bashaarat smiled: "Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“So many places where I‘m not. I‘m not in Naples, in Tangier, Coimbra, Lisbon, New York, Yambol, and Istanbul. Not only am I not there, I am painfully absent. I am not there on a rainy afternoon in London, I am not there in the clamor of Madrid in the evening, I am not in Brooklyn in autumn, I am not there on the empty Sunday streets of Sofia or Turin, in the silence of a Bulgarian town in 1978…”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“And he was doing his best to sound horrified but also, you had to interrupt Banders because she always interrupted you. She respected you for it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, House of Open Wounds