Roxana

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras: A Gripping Classic – French Aviators Defy Impossible Odds During the Fall of France in World War 2

“După ce a pierdut atâția tați, umbra lăsată de casa noastră devenise mult mai mare și mai îndesată față de umbrele caselor învecinate. Era ca și cum ar fi purtat doliu, învelită într-un văl ieșit din ea însăși. Celelalte case aveau umbre subțiri, plăcute, vara le țineau loc de copertine sau de pălărie. A noastră avea o umbră profundă, care te lua cu ea ca apa și, dacă nu erai atent, te puteai îneca în ea, așa mi se părea. Am învățat curând să deosebesc casele după umbră. Cele cu umbre ca abisul pierduseră oameni dragi.”
― Ioana Pârvulescu, Inocenții

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Everybody should come here. Everyone should see how complicated, how deeply troubled, and yet at the same time, beautiful and awesome the world can be. Everyone should experience, even as the clouds gather, what's at stake, what could be lost, what's still here.”
― Anthony Bourdain