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“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Everyone causes trouble for someone at some point in their lives.”
― Hiromi Kawakami

“I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary school, I in fact became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.”
― hiromi kawakami, The Briefcase

“Would you like consider a relationship with me, based on a premise of love.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“That was quite a discovery for me, the fact that arbitrary kindness makes me uncomfortable, but that being treated fairly feels good.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“Up until now, I thought I had enjoyed my life alone, somehow.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“It grows because you plant it.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper grown-up. I had been very much the adult when I was in elementary school. But as I continued on through junior high and high school, on the contrary, I became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“Everything felt so far away.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“Sensei did not like anyone to pour his drinks for him. Whether it was beer or saké, he meticulously poured for himself.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“Is that what you called benevolence? With Sensei, his benevolent nature seemed to originate from his sense of fair-mindedness. It wasn’t about being kind to me; rather, it was born from a teacherly attitude of being willing to listen to my opinion without prejudice. I found this considerably more wonderful than him just being nice to me.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“That was the decision of a lifetime.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“We could go anywhere at all, as long as I’m with you.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“My wife was the kind of person who didn't think things through. She just loved the things she loved, and hated the things she hated.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“Self expression is a tricky
thing. Just as you start to feel
comfortable with yourself after years
of not, you then have to justify
yourself to other people.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“Smiling at devils is a useful, learned thing.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“People will tell you not to waste your youth having too much fun, but they’re wrong. Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it. So do the right thing with your youth, Vivian—squander it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“My dear,
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

For the world has given up on beauty. It doesn’t believe in fairytales anymore, or happy endings.

So a soul that sees beauty is a soul thought to be insane by the majority. They call it stuck up, delusional, and abnormal – all because it sees something better that it can hold out for.

But, if my words mean anything – hold out for that beauty. Walk alone until you grab it. The pain of walking alone against the stream is worth it.

Falsely yours”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Ştii să asculţi? Auzi vântul la fereastră? Auzi păsările care pleacă şi se întorc, ducând şi aducând primăvara? Ştii ce-i nostalgia? Priveşti uneori pe fereastră fără să vezi nimic? Sunt pe acolo şi într-acele, fără fiinţă, o apropiere şi o îndepărtare în preajma ta. Gândeşte-te la mine ca la o stea desprinsă din tine şi dusă în întunericul fără fund.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei

“Adevărate deprimări încep cu efortul eroic de a le ascunde.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei

“Suntem doua liberatati. Dragostea noastra nu e umilinta, e o mandrie. Nu vreau sa te coplesesc, sa-ti limitez viata numai la mine. N-as avea nici o bucurie sa am alaturi de mine un prizonier. Nu-ti cer decat dragostea ta. Aceea e a mea si numai a mea. N-o impart cu nimeni. Asa cum nici tu nu vei imparti cu nimeni dragostea mea. Dar dincolo de dragoste esti liber a trai cum vrei.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei

“Iubirea nu e o stare de luciditate, ci tocmai o renuntare la luciditate, un interimat al inimii.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei

“Norocul e ca și Dumnezeu: nu-l vede decât cine crede în el.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei