Dijananas

“What vanishes when everything vanishes: not only everything, but the memory of everything. Not only can everything no longer remember itself, no longer remember how it was when it still was everything, before it became nothing, but there is nobody else to remember either, and so everything not only ceases to exist but becomes a thing that never was; it is as if everything that was, was not, and moreover there is nobody left to tell the story, not the whole grand story of everything, not even the last sad story of how everything became nothing, because there is no storyteller, no hand to write or eye to read, so that the book of how everything became nothing cannot be written, just as we cannot write the stories of our own deaths, which is our tragedy, to be stories whose endings can never be known, not ever to ourselves, because we are no longer there to know them.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“A good woman of this type is a kind of trampoline. People bounce on her and fly. And if they fall they bounce on her again and rise again. She doesn't seek flight for herself but she spreads herself wide and people use her to climb as high as they can go.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“She looks shaken. You can see the panic in her eyes. The idea of a crumbling cosmos has disturbed her. This is because the ed of everything is impossible to face in the absence of love.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“If you die and go to Hell" the Braves fan said, "you have to change places in Atlanta.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte