Nadia B

“Чи можна дібрати кращу метафору, щоб описати, чим є війна?
Життя зі снарядом.
Коли твоє життя не належить тобі. І дивлячись на небеса, розводиш руками: "Прилетіло".”
― Олександр Михед, "Я змішаю твою кров із вугіллям". Зрозуміти український Схід

“Even now, I don’t know much about happiness. I still worry and want an endless stream of more, but some days I can see the point in growing something, even if it’s just to say I cared enough.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying: Poems

“it came to him then that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect: This was true for Jim and Helen, and for Margaret and himself, as well.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

“I saw a mom take her raincoat off
and give it to her young daughter when
a storm took over the afternoon. My god,
I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her
raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel
that I never got wet.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying