Onorina

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories