Sofía

“What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.”
― Ivo Andric

“-Sí, al borde del vacío comprendió lo más importante - maulló Zorbas.
-Ah, sí? Y qué es lo que comprendió -preguntó el humano.
-Que sólo vuela el que se atreve a hacerlo - maulló Zorbas.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”
― Ivo Andric

“The water can't turn back and choose another bed, just as promises now cannot be kept. No drowned man comes up again asking for a towel, no love is found again, no tobacconist fails to be born in the first place, no bullet shoots out of a neck and back into the gun, the dam will hold or will not hold.”
― Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone