Doronike

“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others-- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion... but that is not my business. We are all different, I suppose. All I ever wanted was to know this world. I can say now, as I reach my end, that I know quite a bit more of it than I knew when I arrived. Moreover, my little bit of knowledge has been added to all the other accumulated knowledge of history-- added to the great library, as it were. That is no small feat, sir. Anyone who can say such a thing has lived a fortunate life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“Dzīve pastāv no bezgalīgām, garlaicīgām dienām un ātriem, skaistiem momentiem, kas kā ziedi pa gaisu aizlido, vēja rauti. Ja to nebūtu - neviens nedzīvotu. Jāmeklē vairāk tādu momentu - tas ir vienīgais, kas glābj dvēseli.”
― Jānis Akuraters, Pēteris Danga

“Mūsu nelaime ir tā, ka mēs nekad skaidri nezinām, kur mūsu nevarēšana beidzas un mūsu negribēšana iesākas.”
― Rūdolfs Blaumanis