Sofia

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“«Ε κακομοίρη άνθρωπε», είπε δυνατά, «μπορείς να μετακινήσεις βουνά, να κάμεις θάματα, κι εσύ να βουλιάζεις στην κοπριά, στην τεμπελιά και στην απιστία! Θεό έχεις μέσα σου, Θεό κουβαλάς και δεν το ξέρεις - το μαθαίνεις μονάχα την ώρα που πεθαίνεις, μα 'ναι πολύ αργά. Ας ανασκουμπωθούμε εμείς που το ξέρουμε, ας σύρουμε μπορεί να μας ακούσουν!»”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, The Fratricides

“What are you looking at, grandfather?" he asked with curiosity.
The old man raised his head and smiled sadly. "At my life flowing and disappearing, son, flowing and disappearing."
"Don't worry, grandfather, it knows where it is going–toward the sea, everyone's life flows toward the sea."
The old man sighed. "Yes, my son, that is why the sea is salty—from the many tears."
He turned back to the flowing stream and did not speak again.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Fratricides