Mahtab

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
― Albert Camus

“Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for is in the Library

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Yes, well, it's two contradictory thoughts, she said, the possibility of ending my life and wanting more life. So what? And here are two more contradictions: I don't believe in God, but I talk to something like God. I ask this presence to feel for me when I have cut down my own feelings.”
― Deborah Levy, August Blue