Yalda Yazdanpanah

“در عین حال بر این واقفیم که حتی
نفرت از دون مایگی
چهره را از ریخت می اندازد

و نیز خشم بر بیداد گری
صدا را خشن می کند

اما افسوس، ما که می خواستیم
زمین را آماده مهربانی کنیم
خود نتوانستیم باهم مهربان باشیم”
― برتولت برشت

“She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I’d hoped to crack these people like nuts, sifting through their brains and coming away with the lessons garnered by a lifetime of regret.”
― David Sedaris, Naked