Simoninja

“It’s really easy to love passing strangers unconditionally. They demand nothing of you. It is really hard to love people unconditionally when they can hurt you.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“In the end, what is a relationship but two people, and between two people there will always be room for surprises and misapprehensions, things that cannot be explained. Perhaps another way of putting it is that between two people, there will always be room for failures of imagination.”
― Katie Kitamura, A Separation

“The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don't know how to live without it.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“– Cosa devo fare, – mi chiese.
Di tutto, – borbottai, – un po’ di medicina, un po’ di sociologia, un po’ di psicologia, un po’ di religione, un po’ di sommosse e rivoluzioni, un po’ di arte, persino una dieta vegetariana, un corso di inglese, uno di astronomia. Dipende dalle stagioni.
– Che stagioni?
– Le stagioni della vita.”
― Domenico Starnone, Trick