Dani Austria

“The events of 1986 spelled deliverance for many, a chance for the country to embark on a new beginning. And yet it appears now that the path to recovery is even more difficult, perhaps because freedom allows individuals and countries many choices, some of which can be foolish, even tragic.”
― Priscilla Supnet Macansantos

“Afterward, through the dreary and uninteresting months and years, one finds that life is really all about small and apparently insignificant choices that one makes, again and again, choices that add up to a life. And one comes to realize, too, but oftentimes, dying, in any manner, is not the point. Rather, it is the living through long periods of attending to mostly humdrum duties, working with people of varied, oftentimes conflicting dispositions and persuasions, and managing to keep one's sense of fairness and decency intact through life's trying confinements, departures, and various other adversities.”
― Priscilla Supnet Macansantos, Departures

“Redoute, the man who painted these roses, died over a hundred seventy years ago. And the rose bushes that he studied are more than likely no longer living either. But once, somewhere, those roses were in bloom. And once, somewhere, a painter lived. And now, through these pieces of paper divorced from the realities of the past, like fantastical flowers that do not exist in our world, these roses bloom.”
― Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

“Although I have, in many ways, left and moved on, these places now serve to remind me that though life can often take distressing turns, the possibilities for courage, sympathy, and endurance are limitless. In the most cruel of times, captive and captor accord each other appreciable consideration. Even in the most miserable conditions, in the most inauspicious circumstances, love blossoms and brightens one's small patch of the sky. Perhaps that is where hope ultimately resides, not only in the supreme courage of those who would for their beliefs, but also in the small kindnesses of those who could not.”
― Priscilla Supnet Macansantos, Departures