Daniel Todorov

“Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, including those of one's own in relation to those of the other.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Eric screams and screams and pounds his head against the wall until phantom fire trucks race across his vision. All he wants is pain. Pain and hate. Yes, hate. But never fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata