Χαρά Ζ.

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“I wrote a letter to you when I was in the capital. So stupid, to put it all in writing. Every thing I’d done. The information I passed to Tensen. The way I worked against the empire. What I felt. My father read it. He gave it to the emperor.” She was weeping. “And I know, I know that it hurt him, that I broke something, that he felt it break. Maybe I wasn’t me anymore, to him. Do you understand? Not his daughter. Not anyone he knew. Just a lying stranger. But how could he? Why couldn’t he love me most? Or enough. Why couldn’t he love me enough to choose me over his rules?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“Εγώ ζητάω την αγάπη. Εγώ ζητάω να σκορπίσω την ψυχή μου σε αντίθετους ανέμους, να φθαρώ στα αντίξοα ρεύματα. Εγώ γυρεύω να σπείρω τις αγωνίες μου για να θερίσω πικρίες. Εγώ θέλω τη στυφή χαρά που μόνο η συντριβή χαρίζει. Εγώ θέλω...Δεν ξέρω τι θέλω.”
― M. Karagatsis, Το χαμένο νησί