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“Сміливі завжди мають щастя.”
― Іван Багряний, Тигролови

“Ліпше умерти раз, умерти гордо, з незломаною душею, аніж повзати на колінях і вмерти двічі - морально й фізично. Але в першім варіанті ще є шанс взагалі не вмерти.”
― Ivan Bahriany, Сад Гетсиманський

“Літо перевалило за половину, а друга половина літа, як відомо, втричі коротша. Після неї воно більше не йде, а стрімко добігає кінця.”
― Євгенія Кузнєцова, Спитайте Мієчку

“Робіть те, чого вам хочеться. Не слухайте нікого. Навіть мене не слухайте, дівчата. Просто робіть так, щоб добре було вам самим, бо ніхто потім не оглянеться на вас, що ви робили щось, аби комусь було затишно, аби комусь було світло і не дуло. Ніхто не згадає.”
― Євгенія Кузнєцова, Спитайте Мієчку

“Найпослідовніша російська демократія завжди закінчується на українському питанні.”
― Віра Агеєва, За лаштунками імперії

“You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how he saw it, how he'd always seen things.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place. Doctors who cured diseases or perform brain surgery, inventing shit that saves lives. Run for president. All those lost geniuses - sure not all of them were geniuses, Chickie Pete for example was not solving special relativity - but they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary. Hobbled and handicapped before the race even began, never figuring out how to be normal.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Perhaps his life might have veered elsewhere if the US government had opened the country to colored advancement like they opened the army. But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“It was easy to root for the winners. No, he liked the punch-drunk ones, half walking at mile twenty-three, tongues flapping like Labradors. Tumbling across the finish line by hook or by crook, feet pounded to bloody meat in their Nikes. The laggards and limpers who weren’t running the course but running deep into their character—down into the cave to return to the light with what they found. By the time they got to Columbus Circle, the TV crews have split, the cone cups of water and Gatorade litter the course like daisies in a pasture, and the silver space blankets twist in the wind. Maybe they had someone waiting for them and maybe they didn’t. Who wouldn’t celebrate that?”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys