Andreea Toader

“Dr. Krokowski answered his own question, and said: “In the form of illness. Symptoms of disease are nothing but a disguised manifestation of the power of love; and all disease is only love transformed.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“He comes into that part of our being that is our treasure, that sacred space within us, hidden under all the fears, walls and anger in us so that we may grow in the spirit of love.”
― Jean Vanier, Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John

“Then I ran to mum and demanded: 'Mum, either the piano disappears from the house or I do! Decide!' And... the piano disappeared. It was literature that I taught to Aennchen instead. In short: music disturbs! Goethe wasn’t thrilled about this either. No instruments in my house. Martha had insisted: 'But the girls, the girls, they need to learn music!' Rubbish, it’s better to read instead.”
― Bernhard Josef Maul, Mahler in Leiden - A Biographical Novel of Gustav Mahler and Sigmund Freud

“So much of childhood seems to have been spent in secret, and most of its pleasures came from this. Most of the memories I have of it, too. I already considered life to be far from wonderful—something, indeed, to be avoided as much as one could, like school or games or children’s parties. Life, real life, was like a picture that frightened me seriously.”
― John Bayley, Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire