Simona

“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
― Beau Taplin

“To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you’ll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It’s to produce a creator.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Have you ever experienced human love?”

“Yes. Once.”

Regret shadowed his face. “Then why would you be willing to repeat it?”

“What we learn is worth more than what we lose.”
― Elizabeth Langston, Wishing for You