Dragoș Sulgheru

“He says: ’For me, you see, I look at life like this: someone had come to me and asked me if I wished to be born I think I should have answered No. I’m sure I should have answered No. But no one asked me. I am here not through my will. Most things that happen to me – they are not my will either. And so that’s what I say to myself all the time: “You didn’t ask to be born, you didn’t make the world as it is, you didn’t make yourself as you are. Why torment yourself? Why not take life just as it comes? You have the right to; you are not one of the guilty ones.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.”
― Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer

“She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her.”
― Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

“I am my own obstacle.”
― Wisława Szymborska