Maria

“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“I have often wondered what resides in an accent. Is it a presence - an identity, a trajectory, a history? Or is it rather an absence - an estrangement, a withdrawal, a blank space refusing to be filled?”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“I promise to feel
no other pain
if I cease to feel
the one that’s killing me now.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Silvina Ocampo

“Perhaps that’s the whole point of prayer – to think to yourself in peace, to want nothing, to ask for nothing, but simply to sort out your own mind. That should be enough.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead