Teodora Gencheva

“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.”
― Novalis, Fragmente und Studien. Die Christenheit oder Europa

“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.”
― George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals

“Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.”
― George Gordon Byron