6 Quotes by Karina Szczurek

The correspondence testifies to the frailty of human longings, to the process of how something precious can turn fatal, a reality become illusion. We are reminded that love should be cherished when it comes your way, because no matter in what form it arrives, carrying no matter what baggage in its fragile beautiful hands, you should welcome it and protect it from the harshness of this world.

Verlange. The process feels like crossing a border on a one-way ticket, from a state of innocence, to one of irreconcilable knowledge. You are in a new country. But no one wants to live here. The visas are assigned by some obscure system nobody can comprehend.

Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world; that’s where truth lives.

Another night, another day. Just the next breath; one more step. Tired. So terribly tired at the bottom of a merciless ocean.

For ten years he saw me. This is not a light or obvious observation. Most people do not see you. Many look, some even stare, but few see you, even fewer know you. With André I had no doubt of being visible, the whole me, inside and out, most of the time. He witnessed and acknowledged me, and I felt recognised, fully reflected in his presence. Then he was no longer there.

I thought that now that he had seen me in all my brokenness and with all my demands, André would walk away. But he didn’t. He understood that what I needed for once in my life was to feel irreplaceable, to know that I mattered like nobody else, that I came first, that I was important to fight and to make sacrifices for.