Katya Petro

“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

“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

“...the stink of the cities is encroaching upon our holy places.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“The glutton has become pure again," William said to me.

"But is this purity?" I asked, horrified.

"There must be some other kind as well," William said, "but, however it is, it always frightens me."

"What terrifies you most in purity?" I asked.

"Haste," William answered.”
― Umberto Eco