Buran

“We were a poorly drawn triangle that day in the car, the angles between us always shifting, but always adding up to the same thing. In the end, we were always trying to understand one another, even if we only made it halfway most days.”
― Janet McNally

“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

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― 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