Polina

“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Робіть те, чого вам хочеться. Не слухайте нікого. Навіть мене не слухайте, дівчата. Просто робіть так, щоб добре було вам самим, бо ніхто потім не оглянеться на вас, що ви робили щось, аби комусь було затишно, аби комусь було світло і не дуло. Ніхто не згадає.”
― Євгенія Кузнєцова, Спитайте Мієчку

“Сміливі завжди мають щастя.”
― Іван Багряний, Тигролови

“It was easy to root for the winners. No, he liked the punch-drunk ones, half walking at mile twenty-three, tongues flapping like Labradors. Tumbling across the finish line by hook or by crook, feet pounded to bloody meat in their Nikes. The laggards and limpers who weren’t running the course but running deep into their character—down into the cave to return to the light with what they found. By the time they got to Columbus Circle, the TV crews have split, the cone cups of water and Gatorade litter the course like daisies in a pasture, and the silver space blankets twist in the wind. Maybe they had someone waiting for them and maybe they didn’t. Who wouldn’t celebrate that?”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys