Elis Shenkov

“Love conquers, deceitful and slow, With a soft amateurish refrain. So strange to think – not long ago You weren’t dejected and gray.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

“Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a realm I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name