Konstantina

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Αηδίες—ο χρόνος έγινε για να κυλάει,
οι έρωτες για να τελειώνουν,
η ζωή για να πηγαίνει στο διάολο
κι εγώ για να διασχίζω το Άπειρο με το μεγάλο διασκελισμό ενός μαθηματικού υπολογισμού,
μονάχα όποιος τα διψάει όλα
μπορεί να με προφτάσει,
ό,τι ζήσαμε
χάνεται,
γκρεμίζεται μέσα στο σάπιο οισοφάγο του χρόνου
και μόνο καμμιά φορά,
τις νύχτες,
θλιβερό γερασμένο μηρυκαστικό τ’ αναμασάει η ξεδοντιασμένη μνήμη,
όσα δε ζήσαμε
αυτά μας ανήκουν—”
― Τάσος Λειβαδίτης, 25η Ραψωδία της Οδύσσειας

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian