How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all… - Italo Calvino

لا جدوى من عناء التفكير في عذاب إعادة الساعات إلي الوراء، وقلب التقاويم للخلف علي أمل الوصول من جديد للحظة مضت و لن تعود أبدا

the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there; and he retraced the stages of his journeys, and he came to know the port from which he set sail, and the familiar places of his youth, and the surroundings of home...

I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place.