Three Summers Quotes

“How did anyone decide to travel around the world? I am already so nostalgic for the places and things that I see every day.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Τα ψάθινα καπέλα

“Memories… memories. The air is heavy with them. I can’t stand it anymore. I no longer fit in that big room with the piano, the little boxes of seeds, the peacock embroidery. I run outside and lie down on the grass. I look up at the moon between the two eucalyptuses; it touches the ledge of the cistern, and I can see the silhouette of a frog in its circle of light. But the frog is not on the moon. Like me, it is on the ground looking up.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Τα ψάθινα καπέλα

“Also, I want to be able to describe the brilliance of the world just before the sun sets, when it falls on the grass, and how green the grass looks, and all the other beautiful things I've seen, for it's a shame for them to last only as long as I am looking at them.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Dusk, like a painter, gave a certain overpowering tone to the landscape that united all the colors and effaced discord.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Sometimes the seduction of other people’s lives causes me to lose the thread of my own.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“The fire lasted for three days and three nights. Now the mountain looks like a wounded beast baring its wounds to the sun.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“It was during those moments that he realized that he experienced true happiness. Whereas big events - like when he graduated or got married to Maria or learned he would be a father - brought worries along with the happiness.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Now my sisters and I no longer lie around in the hay talking. We aren't all in the same place the way we were last year and other years. And when we happen to be together it's as if there is a new awkwardness, as if we had betrayed one another by doing our own thing.

Certainly some day the awkwardness will pass, though time will never undo the betrayal.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“The thought that I was perhaps one of those women destined to a life of unrequited love filled me with a pleasant, bitter melancholy.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“When I think of my father's house it's the mixed-up smell of medicine and wine in the street that I remember, and also the idea of women giving birth as they listen to people singing in the taverna and of people singing as they listen to women screaming.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Absența lui îmi umple ceasuri întregi. Absența lui e altfel, dar îi seamănă, fără să fie totuși el. Stă lângă mine în clipa când mă așez la masă, mă însoțește în plimbările de după-masă. Sunt îndrăgostită de absența lui.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Τα ψάθινα καπέλα

“Chaos and nothingness merged with eternity, staying with him like the scent of cyclamen and heather that filled the forest, and like the sound of her voice echoing in the ravine.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Mario wants to hold that highlight in his hands, but reflections can't be held. A sadness overcomes him. How is it possible for someone to read about anatomy all afternoon, to put everything that he learns in perfect order, and then suddenly for him to get it into his head that he wants to hold a reflection?”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“The day is hot, the mind empty, the leaves motionless, the body and soul, too. We try to give meaning to what we see.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“I've got to go or the water will overflow.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“He had taken her warmth and shut it up inside himself.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Later at night in bed when she drowned him in kisses, his heart wouldn't warm up; the loneliness had spread inside him when the shade had fallen in the ravine.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“She screamed. Then she became calm like the river that flows through the same river bed for centuries.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“He was so sturdy, like a piece of well-chiseled stone. His nose, his chin, his forehead were composed in straight lines, his shoulders and soul, too. Not a single curve. Whereas her body was all round, with sweet, smooth curves and rises, gentle like the earth itself, longing to partake of the other.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“But she wasn't scared of the heat. She welcomed it. under her skin it was as if the cells were dancing. And further in, the blood.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“I wish I could take it all in, hold it in my arms or be held in its arms. Something is swelling inside me, getting larger and larger... I sigh. "What's the matter, Katerina? Are you sad?" everyone asks. "No," I answer. "I'm perfectly happy.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Și noaptea când o simte în patul de lângă el, dragostea lui pentru ea e atât de mare, de parcă i se revarsă sufletul și ar vrea s-o topească și s-o mângâie pe față, și pe trup și pe picioare. Totul din delicatețe, nu din pasiunea de care se simțea ars odinioară. Ar fi dorit să-i mângâie mai ales pântecele pe care i-l vedea mare pentru a doua oară și dacă s-ar putea să simtă sub palmă mișcările celui de-al doilea copil, cum zicea ea că le simte.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Τα ψάθινα καπέλα