Book: Just a short moment on earth, we are all beautiful. Page 1

Although the boy could not yet read large books, he understood that reading could take him very far,

...You can ascend only when there is something above.

What makes us human, Mom, is the ability to put an end to it, really. You need to be able to stop, and then you will move on.

What if the body is, at best, just a longing for the body? Blood rushes to the heart, and it sends it back, it fills the paths, once empty channels, kilometers of roads from me to him.

I wanted his gaze to make me feel like I was standing on both feet in a world in which I had previously been balancing on one.

Memory is a choice.

- People.

I was so stupid that I seriously thought that knowledge could make everything clear, but some things are hidden too deep under the levels of semantics and syntax, under the hours and days; so securely hidden under forgotten names that you rescue from oblivion, and then throw away again, that just knowing about your wounds is not enough. You can't expose them that easily.

We run away from ourselves in order to move on.

...The past is not a landscape frozen forever, it can be reviewed. Whether we like it or not, everyone moves in a spiral, creating something new from the past.

They say that history is cyclical, and not linear, as we think. We travel through time along a spiral trajectory, moving away from the epicenter, but after going through the next cycle, we return.

When will the war end? When will I be able to call your name and it will mean only your name and not everything you left behind?

The entire [monarch butterfly] population could die in one freezing night. This means that life is a matter of time, the right moment.

...Freedom is just the distance between the hunter and his prey. That's what they told me