Γιάννης Μαυρίδης

“She had not meant him to translate her words about returning home so literally at the first; she had not intended him to learn her secret; but more than all she was not able to endure the perception of his learning it and continuing unmoved.”
― Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

“Sometimes you don't face the storm. Sometimes you let it rip you apart so that you no longer have to feel the pain.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Joseph stood at the bottom of the stairs and looked upward, waiting for her to reappear. He felt a desire to open his body for her inspection, so that she could see all the hidden things in him, even the things he did not know were there.
"That would be right," he thought. "Then she would know the kind of man I am; and if she knew that she would be a part of me.”
― John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

“True freedom of speech includes the freedom to call someone a bitch.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana