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  • #1
    Fredrik Backman
    “Loving someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love with all the new things, amazed every morning that all this belongs to you, as if fearing that someone would suddenly come rushing in through the door to explain that a terrible mistake had been made, you weren't actually supposed to live in a wonderful place like this. Then over the years the walls become weathered, the wood splinters here and there, and you start to love that house not so much because of all its perfection, but rather for its imperfections. You get to know all the nooks and crannies. How to avoid getting the key caught in the lock when it's cold outside. Which of the floorboards flex slightly when one steps on them or exactly how to open the wardrobe doors without them creaking. These are the little secrets that make it your home.”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

  • #2
    Fredrik Backman
    “Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

  • #3
    Fredrik Backman
    “We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

  • #4
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #5
    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #7
    Tatiana Țîbuleac
    “În acea dimineață în care urma să ne întoarcem în sat, mama se îngropase pe jumătate în scoici și m-a chemat să îi îngrop și a doua jumătate, căci ea nu putea singură. I‑am spus că o să răcească: pentru că pe mare se stîrnise vîntul, nisipul era ud, ea avea cancer și valurile veneau mari. Mama însă a insistat. Am tot îngropat-o răsturnînd peste ea pumni de scoici mărunte, pînă cînd în locul ei a apărut o ridicătură sidefată, ca un val împietrit care vorbea și speria pescărușii. Valul cu miez de mamă era nespus de frumos și emana o lumină multicoloră, ca un curcubeu pe moarte. "Curcubeul muribund" a fost al treilea tablou, pe care nu-l voi vinde nicicând, pentru că era preferatul Moirei și despre care ea a spus odată că îl vom agăța în dormitor, ca să îl vedem în fiecare dimineață și seară, iar mama să vadă că noi îl vedem și să se bucure. Acum este la ea. Am lăsat-o să zacă acolo acoperită de scoici, ca într-o fașă, până când valurile ajunseseră prea aproape și i-am spus că ar fi bine să plecăm, dar nici atunci nu m-a ascultat. Mi-a răspuns că ar prefera să moară exact în acea secundă, pentru că nu ar fi existat moarte mai frumoasă, mai ales după a viață atât de nefrumoasă ca a ei.”
    Tatiana Țîbuleac, Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi

  • #8
    Irving Stone
    “How difficult it is to be simple.”
    Irving Stone, Lust for Life

  • #9
    Irving Stone
    “First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. We accept all of nature, without any repudiation. We believe there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris. We think pain is good because it is the most profound of all human feelings. We think sex is beautiful even when portrayed by a harlot and a pimp. We put character above ugliness, pain above prettiness and hard, crude reality above all the wealth in France. We accept life in its entirety without making moral judgments. We think the prostitute is as good as the countess, the concierge as good as the general, the peasant as good as the cabinet minister, for they all fit into the pattern of nature and are woven into the design of life!”
    Irving Stone, Lust for Life

  • #10
    Irving Stone
    “You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry.
    [Vincent Van Gogh]”
    Irving Stone, Lust for Life

  • #11
    Irving Stone
    “I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”
    Irving Stone, Lust for Life

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #13
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #14
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #15
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #16
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #19
    Haruki Murakami
    “What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
    tags: love

  • #22
    Haruki Murakami
    “Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyou're tired, tiredandscared. Happenstoeveryone, okay? Justdon'tletyourfeetstop.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #24
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

  • #25
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #26
    Ken Kesey
    “He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

  • #27
    Ken Kesey
    “What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it. ”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  • #28
    Ken Kesey
    “They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

  • #29
    Tatiana Țîbuleac
    “În noaptea ceea nu ne-am iubit. Dimineața nu a fost frumoasă. Moira nu a vrut să vadă macii. Șoferul nu a adormit. Accidentul nu s-a produs. Picioarele nu s-au frânt. Sângele a rămas nescurs în tâmplă. Dragostea nu s-a pierdut. Drogurile nu m-au găsit. Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi nu s-a terminat niciodată.”
    Tatiana Țîbuleac, Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi

  • #30
    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



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