الفة- Olfa

“It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“[…] the heart moving through a tunnel,
in it darkness, darkness, darkness,
like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves,
as though we were drowning inside our hearts,
as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems

“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories