Maite Pons

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more. [C] ‘Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius’ [Wretched is a mind anxious about the future].”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Como el viajero que ha sorteado el abismo, podía asomarse a él y medir la profundidad en la que no había caído. Estaba enamorado, pero aún no estaba perdido.”
― Lucía Etxebarría, El contenido del silencio