Andreea

“Killing in the name of God or in the name of the future is the same thing. When the justification is ideological, empathy and compassion vanish. One kills coldly, without one’s conscience being affected. Like the gratuitous crime of a psychopath.”
― Jaume Cabré, Confessions

“although we’re heading in the same direction, we will never meet again. So great is the sea and so tiny are we.”
― Andrus Kivirähk, The Man Who Spoke Snakish

“Life is like that; all things come to an end. There are some trees where owls have nested for hundreds of years, and yet at some point they leave it empty, don’t return there.”
― Andrus Kivirähk, The Man Who Spoke Snakish

“Death is sometimes so discreet that it steals in noiselessly, stays for only a moment and carries off its prey...”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men