Elisso

“Άραγε πόσα μυστικά κρύβει ο καθένας βαθιά μέσα του και ποτέ δεν μαθαίνονται; Πόσους ανθρώπους θαρρεί κανείς ότι γνώρισε, αλλά δεν είδε παρά μια απατηλή τους εικόνα; Και σε ποιους δικαιολόγησε τα κρίματα τους επειδή ήταν στενοί φίλοι ή στενοί συγγενείς, φτιάχνοντας εν γνώσει του ψεύτικο προσωπείο για κείνους;”
― Γιάννης Καλπούζος, Σέρρα, η ψυχή του Πόντου

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

“Έτσι ακριβώς ανθεί η συγγνώμη, όχι δηλαδή με λόγια και φανφάρες, αλλά με τον πόνο να μαζεύει τα πράγματα του, να τα πακετάρει και να φεύγει μακριά και απροειδοποίητα μέσα στη νύχτα!”
― Καλέντ Χοσεϊνί, The Kite Runner