"Kindern erzählt man Geschichten, damit sie einschlafen - Erwachsenen damit sie aufwachen."

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words." ~Wiliam H. Gass~

"There is no real ending. It's just a place where you stop the story." ~Frank Hermann~

》She turned around. Suddenly she was crying. Biting her own lip and drinking her own tears. With hiccups shaking her ribcage she looked at me and said:
"I hate hope.
Hope is when you hurt your knee badly and you want to walk again, as soon as possible. Hope is when someone breaks your heart and you need to believe that it will mend! Hope is when there's war and you feel that everything that was destroyed will be restored, exactly like it was, and that it's the last war the world would witness!!
Hope follows bad things. When we hope it means something went wrong."
Even though hope is many times the only thing that keeps us alive, I saw the truth in her words, I saw something I never considered. It's been the saddest lesson in my whole life. The only thing I could do was hug her. Hug her tight. Give her what she hated.《