Raluca Preda

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Always you were drawn to the composite creatures, the broken and reassembled, for that is what you are.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends