Nina Sankovitch quotes:

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.

I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth.

And in reading, I discovered that the burden of living is the uneven and unlimited allotment of pain. Tragedy is conferred randomly and unfairly. Any promise of easy times to come is a false one.