Ásta Ólafs

“He'd never been to see a shrink.
'Why?' She asked.
'Either because I never quarreled with who I was or because I was afraid what I'd uncover and end up quarreling with everything I was.”
― André Aciman, Room on the Sea

“For a book is a fragile thing. It’s nothing but the spores of plants, blown by wind, until it’s captured on paper. And once it’s on paper, it still must be a book.”
― Rex Pickett, The Archivist: A Thriller

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Do not let memory chase you… Enjoy memories, yes, but don’t be a slave to who you wish you once had been. Those memories aren’t alive. You are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea