Dee

“Maybe she’d overreacted to the farmer’s conversation with his wife. If his wings had been clipped, Greentop would have been one of the ducks. Perhaps she should have sent him along with the other ducks when the leader asked her to give him up.”
― Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly

“-إنها قسمة عادلة ، فالثراء للأقوياء و الأخلاق للضعفاء”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“For months and months no one would enter except the patient dust and, on sunny days, thin streaks of light. There it was, shut up in the dark, the little world of his childhood. His mother would keep it like that so that on his return he could find himself again there, still be a boy within its walls even after his long absence – but of course she was wrong in thinking that she could keep intact a state of happiness which was gone for ever or hold back the flight of time, wrong in imagining that when her son came back and the doors and windows were reopened everything would be as before.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe