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“When we talk about Alzheimer’s, about amnesia and memory loss, we skip over something important. People suffering from this not only forget what was, but they are also completely incapable of making plans, even for the near future. In fact, the first thing that goes in memory loss is the very concept of the future.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“You always say that the eighties are the decade that produced mostly boredom and disco in the East, E. wrote me after the elections, but clearly that’s what people want—disco and boredom.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“When dreams repeat events from the past, when they mangle them, turn them into images, and sift them through a web of meanings, I start to fear that the past, just like the future, will remain obscure and inscrutable forever. The fact that I have experienced something doesn’t mean I have understood it. Suppose it turned out that something I thought I knew about and had always regarded as fixed and certain might have happened for a completely different reason and in a way I had never suspected. That it had led me to the wrong conclusion, and that I had failed to go in the right direction because I was blind, or asleep.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night

“A garden can be anywhere where something grows and dies and changes, anywhere there's a little beauty to cling to.”
― Nina LaCour, Meet Me in the Garden