Valentin Nedelea

“Do I have a choice in refusing?” I said.
“As much as any other character in any other story.”
“None then?”
“None then,” she agreed.”
― Exurb1a, Sublimia Syndrome

“If the giant deer, at suitable intervals, had broken off the outer spears of its antlers, it might have kept going for some while longer. Yet in fever and constant pain, indeed, in betrayal of its central idea, the core of its peculiarity, for it was vocated by creation’s hand to be the horn bearer of wild animals. What it gained in continuance, it would lose in significance, in grandness of life, in other words a continuance without hope, a march not up to affirmation, but forth across its ever recreated ruins, a self-destructive race against the sacred will of blood.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

“Dacă ești pe planeta asta doar un copac fără rădăcini, cât de departe îți poți întinde ramurile?”
― Dinçer Güçyeter, Unser Deutschlandmärchen

“Character is not what people do, it is the things people do when they think no one is watching.”
― Exurb1a, Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too