Peter Hobbs > Quotes

“Love must be shared, or else it is just madness.”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

“Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?”
― Peter Hobbs

“The boy I once was is a stranger to me, and sometimes I wonder if terrible experiences are enough to change a person - I mean fundamentally to change a person's nature - or if they merely subdue it, and it endures there beneath, and will reassert itself in time. I wonder if I will be recognized by my family. If those I love will still know me.”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

“Perhaps you have put the past behind you, and whatever regrets you might have had have been set aside, because you don not see their purpose. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on the lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one life is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

“Am vazut cum se revarsa mania cand e impiedicata. Trebuie sa se abata undeva, asa ca se abate asupra celor care nu se pot apara. Astfel de oameni actioneaza pentru a se simti puternici, pentru a-si afirma lumea asupra noastra. Ei cred ca trebuie sa triumfe sau altfel totul e pierdut. si nu se tem a distruga, caci nu inteleg ce anume distrug.”
― Peter Hobbs

“Every day I long for something I will never have, and I am learning to live with that longing. Is it not better than forgetting - to face our regrets for what they are, to know their measure, to know the value of what we have lost?”
― Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

“Saba- we were just children then, and knew nothing of the of the boundaries that contour the world of adults. We did not know that the world is formed by walls and bars, that peoples are divided from one another.
The mountain was porous. How could anyone draw a border here? And even nations could not be divided, then why should any two people? No we were children and knew nothing of this;perhaps we will never be so wise again.”
― Peter Hobbs