Elia

“The irony, thought, is that that very desire for confidence is precisely what ends up undermining the accuracy of their decision”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“Men know the damage a few words can do to girls’ hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us”
― Grégoire Delacourt, La liste de mes envies