Elena

“I believe I've used the world 'riddle' many times in this letter. Attempting to understand the universe is perhaps comparable to doing a great jigsaw puzzle. Although possibly it's as much a mental or intellectual riddle, and we may have the answer to it within us. We are here, after all. We are the universe.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“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

“You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“In the end, writing arises when man realizes that memory is not enough.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter