Elmira

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago...”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol