Elena

“More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in rain. The airplane drenched in rain. A cold wind, darkness. But here, from the morning's earliest moments, the airport is ablaze with sunlight, all of us in sunlight.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, The Shadow of the Sun

“A fact about the world Millie knows for sure: Everyone knows everything about being born, and no one knows anything about being dead.”
― Brooke Davis, Lost & Found

“loss” is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever say he has lost, what he does not permit to exist in his mind.”
― Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go

“I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.”
― Pico Iyer, The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home