Renato

“The past looks lovely and important only when the present, the here and now, is miserable and when the future looks unclear or even dismal.”
― Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“She stared ahead with eyes where dreams no longer swam, where thoughts no longer had any life. It was that hazy stare of old people behind which was the mysterious nothingness which was drawing nearer, the absolute end, the annihilation of everything and everybody, the awful end in helplessness, grief, grief, and the sleep of everything there is.”
― Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night

“There are some things we run after and it turns out that we run in vain. Then there are things we don't pursue, and those are the things that escape us.”
― Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night