Daniela Selişteanu

“Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“...we are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us...”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.”
― Yasmina Khadra, What the Day Owes the Night