Katya Petro

“Will you tell me, William, you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them, where the truth lies?"

"Nowhere, at times," William said, sadly.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“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 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

“This morning, at the library, when the Autodidact came to say good-morning to me, it took me ten seconds to recognise him. I saw an unknown face which was barely a face.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea