Agnes

“I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“The family therapist David Freeman once concluded a public lecture on intimacy and relationships by saying that if there was any one thing he hoped his audience would remember from his talk, it was the awareness that one does not know his or her spouse, his or her children. We may believe we have a perfect idea of why they act as they do, when in reality our beliefs reflect no more than our own anxieties.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
― George Orwell

“Every man hangs by a thread, any minute the abyss may open under his feet, and yet he must go and invent for himself all kinds of troubles and spoil his life.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons