Demanda ☾

“all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all; we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“Nostalgia is in my blood. My mother was a passionate teacher of history and a lover of all things "was." I, too, prefer the bygone, and I'm prone to waxing wistful over the end of something even as I'm living it--cherishing, hanging on.”
― Lisa Anselmo, My (Part-Time) Paris Life: How Running Away Brought Me Home