Janaina Greffe

“I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person;”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still”
― Wislawa Szymborska

“That is the way the leaves fall round an autumn  tree; it is unaware of it, rain runs down it, it is subjected to sun or frost and life slowly retreats. It does not die. It waits.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

“It's shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach