eosphoros

“When you are in your twenties, even if you’re confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later … later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches. It’s a bit like the black box aeroplanes carry to record what happens in a crash. If nothing goes wrong, the tape erases itself. So if you do crash, it’s obvious why you did; if you don’t, then the log of your journey is much less clear.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

“How to share leisure time is a phantom issue between husbands and wives. It is more important than making a choice about children’s school...”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
― Ali Smith, Winter