Nicoleta

“There are no coincidences in the universe, only signs. Can you see the signs?”
― Elif Shafak, Black Milk: A beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing from the bestselling author

“Ci sono uomini indolenti, sono fatti così, altri che non vogliono perdere un solo attimo di tempo, e si danno da fare, che differenza c'è? Gli uomini si agitano fino a quando non muoiono.”
― Yasmina Reza, The God of Carnage

“The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that's what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That's obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be supper for worms one day. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

“I am not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake, but when we are inside a good novel we leave our cozy, small apartments behind and, through fictional characters, find ourselves getting to know people we had never met before, and perhaps had even disliked as our Others.”
― Elif Shafak, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within