Madalina Barcar

“There are no coincidences", Silette wrote. "Only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overheard, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don't see the omens. They don't know how to read the signs.
To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.”
― Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

“But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them . Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Of course, rationally I knew the universe wasn’t fair and was never going to be—there are no rules or standards for who wins and who loses. Life isn’t fair even when we ostensibly have some degree of control. Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.”
― Susan D Hoben, Dying Well: Our Journey of Love and Loss

“So many of us go through life with our stories hidden, feeling ashamed or afraid when our whole truth doesn’t live up to some established ideal.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming