Miriam > Miriam's Quotes

“Vedere il lato bello, accontentarsi del momento migliore, fidarsi di quest’abbraccio e non chiedere altro perché la sua vita è solo sua e per quanto tu voglia, per quanto ti faccia impazzire non gliela cambierai in tuo favore. Fidarsi del suo abbraccio, della sua pelle contro la tua, questo ti deve essere sufficiente, lo vedrai andare via tante altre volte e poi una volta sarà l’ultima, ma tu dici, stasera, adesso, non è già l’ultima volta? Vedere il lato bello, accontentarsi del momento migliore, fidarsi di quando ti cerca in mezzo alla folla, fidarsi del suo addio, avere più fiducia nel tuo amore che non gli cambierà la vita, ma che non dannerà la tua perché se tu lo ami, e se soffri e se vai fuori di testa questi sono problemi solo tuoi; fidarsi dei suoi baci, della sua pelle quando sta con la tua pelle, l’amore è niente di più, sei tu che confondi l’ amore con la vita.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Biglietti agli amici

“Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“You deserve someone who will love you in all your damaged glory.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

“Se vuoi salvarti, leggi. E se tu volessi, addirittura, salvare qualcuno, scrivi.”
― Leo Ortolani

“The normal reasons. Like, I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. It’s all the dumb clichés about how even when I’m mad at you I love you and how every day the best part of it is waking up next to you. And it kills me that this is all the normal, typical people-in-love stuff, because I want to believe our love is special—that it’s bigger and more interesting than any love that anyone else has had before—but the heartbreaking truth is my love for you is so consistent and predictable and boring.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid you’re going to break them, and the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid they’ll break you.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“A statue isn't built from the ground up -- it's chiseled out of a block of marble -- and I often wonder if we aren't likewise shaped by the qualities we lack, outlined by the empty space where the marble used to be. I'll be sitting on a train. I'll be lying awake in bed. I'll be watching a movie; I'll be laughing. And then, all of a sudden, I'll be struck with the paralyzing truth: It's not what we do that makes us who are. It's what we don't do that defines us.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“And I thought about how, actually, if you wanted to, you could say the same thing about life. That life is terrifying and overwhelming and it can happen at any moment. And when you’re confronted with life you can either be cowardly or you can be brave, but either way you’re going to live. So you might as well be brave.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“And you’ll smile at this man and wonder if he too, like all those who came before him, will someday be a bittersweet memory, will someday be felled by the same foolish blunder of knowing you a little too well and yet also somehow not enough.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“You can write it all down, you can put it in your book of facts, but the truth is no one can ever really understand the tangle of experiences and passions that makes you who you are. It's a secret collection, a private language, a pebble in your pocket that you play with when you're anxious.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“He had this really amazing party trick where sometimes he could go a full hour without even once being suddenly reminded of the paralyzing truth that his life was finite and unrepeatable.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“Move across the country and hope the Sadness won’t find you, won’t follow you like a stray dog from coast to coast. Hope the Sadness isn’t just a fog on a leash, shadowing you always. Hope the Sadness can’t be as fleet as you are, hope the Sadness is more rooted. Perhaps the Sadness has friends, a family, and can’t just pick up and go. Look at all this stuff the Sadness has here in San Jose or Chapel Hill or wherever you’re currently leaving. How’s the Sadness going to survive without all this stuff? Hope this isn’t one of those any-place-I-hang-my-hat-is-home-type situations where the Sadness hangs its hat on you. Hope that you are not the Sadness’s home, anywhere you go, no matter how far, no matter how quickly—the Sadness lives in you. Hope to God it’s not that.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“- Why me?
- That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
- Yes.
- Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
"The big show is inside my head," I said.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“in nonsense is strength”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Goodbye blue Monday.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Ogni anno l’autunno gli porta di questi sentimenti. Bisogno di silenzi, di solitudine, di ricordi. Bisogno di dormire. Di ricapitolarsi. Bisogno d’interiorità. La terra lo chiama a sé e lo invita a raccogliersi.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

“Io ho sempre voluto tutto Thomas. E mi sono sempre dovuto accontentare di qualcosa.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

“Niente è più banale che dire: la vita continua. Ma lui ora sente proprio questo, perché conosce, nel mondo, delle persone che continuano.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

“A volte gli era capitato di pregare, mentre faceva l’amore. Il suo sguardo si distendeva sulla nudità del corpo desiderato con una devozione castissima, addirittura verginale. Sentiva il miracolo di avere accanto a sé la bellezza della creazione e di poterla contemplare in silenzio. Di poterla toccare, assorto, con la punta delle dita così come, con lo sguardo, poteva accarezzare, in certi tramonti, la montagna. Non lo sfiorava nemmeno lontanamente l’idea del possesso e del dominio dell’altro. Non voleva rubare niente, né pretendere, né strappar via. Voleva che tutto si mantenesse intatto in un senso di gratitudine e di pienezza.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate

“Abbiamo bisogno di tempo. Di mettere tempo fra noi. Di vivere insieme, di viaggiare insieme, perché il nostro pensiero riconosca istintivamente l'altro; e lo riconosca come una presenza automatica di consuetudine e di affetto. Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Camere separate