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“Maybe war never really ends.”
― Jesse Browner, Sing to Me: A Novel

“In her essay “On Grief” Jennifer Senior quotes a therapist who likens the survivors of loss to passengers on a plane that has crashed into a mountaintop and must find their way down. All have broken bones; none can assist the others. Each will have to make it down alone.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

“In contrast to other branches of science and the humanities, philosophy lacks a predetermined object of study. There can be philosophy of anything because philosophy is a method, a way of looking at the world and reflecting on it, rather than the study of a particular, concrete phenomenon. This allows philosophers to be in constant dialog with other areas of knowledge, to move with ease from one discipline to another, to take nothing for granted, to question every assumption, and to offer refreshing and innovative points of view that can serve as catalysts for any debate.”
― Susana Monsó, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

“A writer I like left behind a passage like this in one of his books:
"People forget all kinds of things. They live by forgetting. Yet our thoughts endure, the way waves leave traces in the sand." Deep down, I hope that's true. It gives me great hope.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop