Sandr

“Things, once gone, can't be put back; he knew that now. A punch, once delivered, can't be withdrawn. Words, once spoken, can't be unsaid. We may go on as if nothing has been lost, nothing done, nothing said; we may claim to forget it all; but our innermost core doesn't forget, because we have been changed forever.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“...maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“After a certain age, we do not move on from the dead, we remain in their time, in their company.”
― Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex 1

“[...]Because at some point everyone wants to run away from their life. It's about the only thing human beings have in common”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story