Ivana Kinder

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: Complete Collection

“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

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch