Елена Димитрова

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Фактически да можеш да се съсредоточаваш, означава да си в състояние да останеш сам със себе си и именно това качество е съществено условие за изкуството да обичаш. Ако съм свързан по необходимост с друг човек, понеже не мога да стоя на краката си, той (или тя) могат да се нарекат мои благодетели, но взаимоотношението ни не е обич. Колкото и парадоксално да звучи, умението да бъдеш сам е предпоставка за изкуството да обичаш. Всеки, който се опита да остане сам със себе си, ще разбере колко трудна е такава задача.”
― Ерих Фром "Изкуството да обичаш"

“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals remind us of nature’s impossibly varied schemes for survival, all the strategies that species rely upon for courtship and mating and protecting the young and establishing dominance and hunting for something to eat and avoiding being eaten. On a good day, zoos shake people into recognizing the manifold possibilities of existence, what it’s like to walk across the Earth, or swim in its oceans of fly above its forests—even though most animals on display will never have the chance to do any of those things again, at least not in the wild.”
― Thomas French, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives