Maisa

“There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.”
― Donald Antrim, The Verificationist

“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all.”
― Imre Kertész, Fatelessness