Katya Petro

“Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much. But often, and this is the lonely part, they only matter to you.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody that will inspire me with passion. You know, it’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness…there is even a moment, right at the start, where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it, you don’t do it. I know that I shall never jump again.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“I’ve had too much experience in life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men, some of them are not. And half the time the best of them don’t know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself.”
― Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems

“I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast