Yana Petrova

“The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.”
― John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure

“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present. Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery—as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Невесел, мълчалив, безчувствен за новия полъх на жизнелюбие, разтърсващ къщата, полковник Аурелиано Буендия едва-едва проумя, че тайната на добрата старост не е нищо друго, освен почтен договор със самотата.”
― Габриел Гарсия Маркес