Sona Khachatryan

“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.”
― Abe Kōbō, The Woman in the Dunes

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
― Kobo Abe

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls