Kai

“It is almost dawn, a short step away from that uncanny threshold between nighttime and daylight. It is the only time in which it is still possible to find solace in dreams and yet too late to build them anew.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“Think about them: the waves of change and alteration, endlessly breaking. And see our brief mortality for what it is.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Stoic Collection: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Seneca's On the Brevity of Life, Virgil's Aeneid, Epictetus' The Manual for Living, Hesiod's Works and Days, & Cicero's On Friendship

“Chrysanthemum dew from the morning we both knew in life together moistens for me this autumn sleeves that I must wear alone.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“The impediment to action advances action.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Meditations