Sometimes

"On the day of Mary Lisbon´s death by sleeping pills, the paramedics' arrival at the Lisbon household seems almost routine. In the past year, all four of her sisters have committed suicide. Watching the EMS truck arrive, a group of neighborhood boys, recall the paramedics' first visit".


The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides


"Sometimes, when a bird cries out,
Or the wind sweeps through a tree,
Or a dog howls in a far off farm,
I hold still and listen a long time.
My soul turns and goes back to the place
Where, a thousand forgotten years ago,
The bird and the blowing wind
Were like me, and were my brothers.
My soul turns into a tree,
An animal, and a cloud-bank.
Then changed and odd it comes home
And asks me questions. How should I reply?"


Hermann Hesse