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

“Some friends complete us, while others complicate us. Maybe you feel as if there were nothing better in the world than driving in a car, listening to music with friends, looking for an all-night donut shop. Nobody says a thing, and it is perfect. Maybe your lifelong fascination with harmony finally began to make sense in those scenes, packed in your family's station wagon, singing along to "God Only Knows," waiting in the parking lot until the song was over.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True