The Love of Impossible Sums Quotes

“Everything is as it appears, not as science claims it to be. If it feels as though the sun is less hot, then it follows that the sun must be less hot. The earth, or where on it one happens to be, seems as irrelevant as which heavenly body revolves at what speed around which: in our universe, everything revolves around us. We even turn the clocks back and forth, deciding if the mornings should be lighter or that daylight should last long into the night. This collective self-centredness inclines each one of us to imagine that our own rightful place is not only at the centre of our own lives but of everything. And while we make the world go around with our ambition, we break it with our warped sense of our own self-importance.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Love of Impossible Sums

“There are no ghosts. There is grief and denial, and the comfort of entrenched resignation. Memories become superstitions, snuffing out the rarest possibilities.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Love of Impossible Sums

“The past is a permanent ambush, lying in wait behind words, behind objects, in shadows. And I am its accomplice, an enlisted saboteur laying booby traps that blow up in my face.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Love of Impossible Sums