Sheziss

“Those who thought that this war would be over quickly are all dead. Of the war, of course.”
― Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

“Some creatures are born to live, others to work, others to watch life. I had a small, miserable role as spectator. Impossible to get out of it. Impossible to free myself. A dreadful grief was the only reality for me then.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“«Si no puedes volver atrás, deja que todo vaya donde quiera el viento».”
― Sanmao, Diarios de las Canarias

“Where does she begin, and where do I end? she thought... On they drove. They were two living people, driving across London; two sparks of life enclosed in two separate bodies; and those sparks of life enclosed in two separate bodies are at this moment, she thought, driving past a picture palace. But what is this moment; and what are we?”
― Virginia Woolf, The Years