NicoleR

“to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“perhaps solitude has stretched out his thoughts into long strands, and accustomed him to internal dialogues.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Perhaps that’s the whole point of prayer – to think to yourself in peace, to want nothing, to ask for nothing, but simply to sort out your own mind. That should be enough.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead