Diana Maria - Talida

“People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
― Toni Morrison

“Not like Dante
discovering a commedia
upon the slopes of heaven
I would paint a different kind
of Paradiso
in which the people would be naked
as they always are
in scenes like that because it is supposed to be
a painting of their souls but there would be no anxious angels telling them
how heaven is
the perfect picture of
a monarchy and there would be no fires burning
in the hellish holes below in which I might have stepped
nor any altars in the sky except
fountains of imagination”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated