Teodora Stoyanova

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin