Maria

“In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.”
― Alred De Musset

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

“I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
― Anaïs Nin

“We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.”
― Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations