Xenia

“You can be just friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys."

Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make ?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Χωρίς να σε βλέπω χωρίς να σου μιλάω
χωρίς ν’ αγγίζω ούτε μια σκιά απ’ το βήμα σου
χωρίς – πόσο γυμνός ακόμα θα ’θελες να μείνω;
Μη με πιστεύεις, σε τίποτα μη με πιστέψεις.
Κι όταν εντάσσω τις στιγμές στα σίγουρα σχήματά μου
όταν ανασκευάζω το χαμόγελό σου
όταν αποκαλώ την ομορφιά φθαρτό περίβλημα
μη με πιστεύεις – κι όμως σου λέω την αλήθεια.
Δεν την αντέχω αυτή τη μάταια ελπίδα
να επιζώ σε μια τυχαία σου σκέψη
μα κάθε βράδυ τη ζεσταίνω απ’ την αρχή.”
― Τίτος Πατρίκιος

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince