Niklas Gleitz

“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“And in the night I reach for her
she keeps me safe
My other half to help carry this weight
just a reminder
our love should not be a debate”
― Courtney Peppernell, The Road Between

“History isn‘t the lies of the victors,(…); I know that now. It‘s more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“And questions are the only answers we need
to know that we are as alive as as a time when I held the mind of a child asking:
Why is 2+3 always equal to 5?
Where do people go when they die?
What made the beauty of the moon -
the beauty of the sea?
Did that beauty make you?
Did that beauty make me?
Will it make me
something?
Will I be something?
Am I something?
And the answer comes:
You already are.
You always were.
And you still have time to be.”
― Anis Mojgani, Songs From Under The River