Valexine

“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“Хелън си спомняше съпруга си откъслечно, мярваше само изсъхнали люспици, които се носеха като листа, нахлули през кухненската врата. Понякога улавяше някое от тях и успяваше да го огледа добре, но най-вече се взираше в летящите около глезените ѝ листа и се чудеше как, за бога, ще намери сили да ги измете.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Little did she yet understand that the end of childhood comes not when a child’s body changes with puberty, but when her mind is finally able to see her life through the eyes of an outsider.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World