Ameena

“Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

“One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.”
― Patrick Modiano, La Petite Bijou

“In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie back and allow ourselves to float along calmly over the deep waters, with our eyes closed.”
― Patrick Modiano, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood

“I agree that ghosts only appear to the sick, but that only proves that they are unable to appear except to the sick, not that they don't exist.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment