Noëlle Picarra

“Mirrors lie as much as memories do.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“Because, on reflection, once you have seen your own face and recognized the color of your eyes, tasted the air and smelled the soil, drunk from the purest fountains and the dirtiest wells, that is the kindest thing you can say abut life. It's not nothing.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“There were moments when the vain hunt for her real self became so perplexing and disheartening that she was glad to escape from it into the mechanical duties of her new life. But in the intervals she continued to grope for herself, and to find no one.”
― Edith Wharton, The Buccaneers

“All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling
the truth. I don’t think this matters so long as
one knows what one is doing, and why.” — George Orwell”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping