Laura

“We used to hear the stars, too. When people stopped talking, there was silence. Now you could shut every mouth on the planet and there’d still be a hum. Air-conditioning groaning from the vent beside you. Semi trucks hissing on a highway miles away. A plane complaining ten thousand feet above you.

Silence is an extinct word.

It bothers you, doesn’t it?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Su Internet avevo visto vecchi rossetti Yardley – lo stick ormai ridotto a un impasto ceroso sbriciolato – in vendita per quasi cento dollari. In modo che le donne di una certa età potessero sentirlo di nuovo, quell’odore chimico di fiori. Ecco quanto ci tenevano le persone, a sapere che la loro vita era accaduta davvero, che ciò che erano state un tempo esisteva ancora da qualche parte dentro di loro.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

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― Eleonora C. Caruso, Tutto chiuso tranne il cielo