Maria

“...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“I don't know why, but I suddenly felt a long way away from everybody I had known and loved when I was a girl. I missed people. For a minute I stood there and wished I could get back to that time. Then with my next thought I understood clearly that I couldn't do that. No. But it came to me then that my life did not remotely resemble the life I thought I'd have when I had been young and looking ahead to things.”
― Raymond Carver, Beginners

“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“Ο άνθρωπος είναι πάντα το δώρο.”
― Θάνος Κάππας, Πώς πάνε τα πράγματα