Ioana

“His arrogance marked something new in the world as this was the first war where the losers would write history instead of the victors, courtesy of the most efficient propaganda machine ever created.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Adama was loyal—not to me, mind you. He was a believer, but it wasn’t me he believed in. He believed in something that was part of the very air we breathed in the late sixties, and he was loyal to that something. It wouldn’t be easy to explain what that something was. Whatever it was, though, it made us free. It saved us from being bound to a single set of values.”
― Ryū Murakami, 69 (Intrinsics in Tina)-Sixty nine (Young Jump Comics) (2004) ISBN: 4088766539 [Japanese Import]

“Life is a performance, I thought. Perhaps the word "Illusion" would have meant more or less the same thing, but to me "performance" seemed closer to the truth. Standing there in the midst of the crowd that evening, I felt this realisation swirl dizzly through my body in a dazzling splendor of light, if only for an instant. Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been at every stage along the way and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone through each day we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love but we alone support the weight of ourselves.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando