Gisela Adriano

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us, religion is transmitted through the father; among Jews, through the mother. Therefore, according to the Muslims, Nadia was Muslim; according to the Jews, she was Jewish. She herself might have chosen one or the other, or neither, she chose to be both at once...Yes, both at once and more. She was proud of all the bloodlines that had converged in her, roads of conquest or exile from central Asia, Anatolia, the Ukraine, Arab, Bessarabia, Armenia, Bavaria...She refused to divide out her blood, her soul.”
― Amin Maalouf, Ports of Call

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray