"Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent."

"When Irina Bazili began working at Lark House in 2010, she was twenty-three years old but already had few illusions a…"

"Jealousy. The person who hasn't felt it cannot know how much it hurts, or imagine the madness committed in its name. …"

"She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well…"

"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."

"He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterer…"

"Where does taste end and smell begin?"

"Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences."

"For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his…"

""There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It’s the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and …"