Elena

“Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that's how every ideology functions.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“For the first time in my life I had actually realised that I, too, would leave this world and everything I loved one day. It was a terrible thought. It was an unbearable thought.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“If everyone drowned in letters from dead fathers and forefathers, they would never be able to live their own lives.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl