Jeannou C

“Je crois que j’ai une mémoire de la souffrance qui s’efface, par sympathie pour moi-même peut-être, pour avancer avec des valises plus légères”
― Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

“You alone are responsible for yourself and your life. And if you just do what you’ve always done, you’ll just get what you’ve always got.”
― Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness

“And yet, it occurs to me now that we can never run with our lies indefinitely. Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. We can choose then when, not the if. And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark