Buran

“Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.”
― Julian Barnes

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.”
― Julian Barnes

“Nervously, I light a cigarette and chase through the smoke for the wounds that years have seared my soul, words whose fire has never been quenched by ink. Is paper a dustbin for the memory, a place where we always deposit the ash of the last cigarette of nostalgia, the remnants of the final disappointment? Which one of us lights up or stubs the other? I really do not know. Before you, I never wrote anything worth mentioning. Because of you, I put pen to paper.”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi