Tenzin

“I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew—the outline of a single tree standing in for a grove, lamp-posts and chimneys floating up out of context before the surrounding canvas was filled in—an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the old landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You must try again. There is no anger that lasts forever.”
― Magda Szabó, Abigail

“I wanted to free my country from a war in which there are no heroes, only victims”
― Magda Szabó, Abigail

“I’m reminded of the accumulated weight of unfinished projects.”
― Daniel Clausen, The Ghosts of Nagasaki