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“Nếu như, nếu như ông sống lại, cháu sẽ kể cho ông nghe rất nhiều chuyện, chắc chắn ông cũng sẽ đáp lại lời cháu. Chuyện nỗi lo về kỳ thi chuyển cấp, chuyện hoàn toàn không biết tương lai mình muốn làm gì, cháu mong ông lắng nghe những nỗi niềm đó. Đến mùa hè, mình lại cùng nhau ăn dưa hấu, có lẽ cả bắn pháo hoa nữa. Khi nào cháu thành người lớn, một lúc nào đó ta có thể cùng nhau uống bia ở cửa hàng bánh xèo. Không thể làm được những điều đó, cháu thấy rất buồn, rất cô độc. Nhưng, rốt cuộc, đó vẫn là khó khăn của cháu. Ông đã sống thật trọn vẹn, thật tuyệt vời. Những mảnh xương trắng của ông đã chỉ cho cháu thấy điều đó. Chúng nói rằng ông đã sống hết mình. Cháu cũng sẽ cố gắng.”
― Kazumi Yumoto, The Friends

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
― Charles Buxton

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“My unhappiness protects me from life.”
― Orhan Pamuk

“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
Is he?'
All boys are.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“But solitude is sadness.'

'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence. ”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Và bởi vì hoàn cảnh bao giờ cũng mang tính cách cộng đồng, chúng ta biết rằng chính con người đã tạo nên hoàn cảnh của mình và chỉ có con người mới đủ sức chuyển tạo được hoàn cảnh”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Nói với tuổi hai mươi

“There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“I write because I want to have more than one life.”
― Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups

“How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.”
― Remarque, Erich Maria Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments. So, when you ask your questions, forget about the troops outside and the fear inside. Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that. Therefore, we will speak about our daily lives, about the difficulties we have had to face. That is all the future will be interested in, because I do not believe very much will change in the next thousand years.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it’s tougher to be in your 20s because you’re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.”
― Nigel Cole

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction

“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed