Nina

“On any given day, something can come along and steal our hearts. It may be any old thing: a rosebud, a lost cap, a favorite sweater from childhood, an old Gene Pitney record. A miscellany of trivia with no home to call their own. Lingering for two or three days, that something soon disappears, returning to the darkness. There are wells, deep wells, dug in our hearts. Birds fly over them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“How can those who live in the light of day possibly comprehend the depths of night?”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.”
― Margaret Atwood

“It’s like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it’s biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao