Parizad Nobakht

“Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?”
― Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“If you don't try, nothing ever changes.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography