Sandra

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”
― Paul Auster

“Kalte Zugluft macht den Hals starr und das Blickfeld klein. Man sieht nur geradeaus zum vermeintlichen Ziel und nicht zur Seite, wo die Augenblicke stattfinden, für die es sich lohnt, die Fahrt zu bestreiten”
― Daniel Glattauer, Alle sieben Wellen

“So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off?

M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood