Silrod

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto. And somehow every lover knows this. He feels in his soul that his love is a solitary thing. He comes to know a new, strange loneliness and it is this knowledge which makes him suffer.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

“Numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret; numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset”
― Byung-Chul Han, La sociedad del cansancio

“life is an adventure to be embraced with an open mind and loving heart”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other