Taz

“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“بكوا في أول الأمر ثم ألفوا وتعودوا. إن الإنسان يعتاد كل شيء. يا له من حقير”
― فيودور دوستويفسكي, الجريمة والعقاب 1