Sandra

“The idea that my brains could be untangled, straightened out, and thus refashioned into a state of peace and sanity was a comforting fantasy. I often felt there was something wired weird in my brain. [...] I was dark, you might say. Moony. But I don't think I was really so hardhearted by nature. Had I been born into a different family, I might have grown up to act and feel perfectly normal.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Mitte keegi ei tea, kauaks meile päevi on antud ja ega sel mingit tähtsust polegi. Aimame, millega see kõik lõpeb, samuti nagu teame, et teisele poolele paistavad meie aktsioonid tühipalja agooniana. Sööme vaikides mune ja tomatisalatit.”
― Raul Oreškin, Kui ma vananen ...

“You're light, and float up as if you're weightless. You wander from country to country, city to city, woman to woman, but don't think of finding a place that is home. You drift along, engrossed in savoring the taste of the written language, and, like ejaculating, leave behind some traces of your life. You achieve nothing and no longer concern yourself with things in life and afterlife. As your life was plucked back from death, why should you be concerned? You simply live in this instant, like a leaf in the brink of falling from a tree.”
― Gao Xingjian, One Man's Bible

“Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wie lieber hatten als uns, wie wenn wir in Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.”
― Franz Kafka, Briefe 1900 - 1912