Our Daily War Quotes

“I used to make light of my wife's habit of giving beautiful decorative candles to friends and acquaintances as presents. I was equally bemused when candles were given to us. They seemed to end up gathering dust. But now their time has come – the time of donated candles. Suddenly such a gift makes perfect sense. A candle is a future light and it might be the only source of light during darkness. What is more, a candle is an opportunity to understand how people lived before the advent of electricity. It was a very different world. Without electricity and all our electricity-guzzling apparatuses we might be left in the dark, but we are also able to return to philosophical reflection and eternal values. A burning candle slows down movement. You never walk past one too quickly because the gust of air might extinguish it.”
― Andrey Kurkov, Our Daily War