Marina Brum > Marina's Quotes

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

“Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

“At times like this, adults need a drink”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I love you because you are not mine, because you are from the other side, from there where you invite me to jump and I cannot make the jump, because in the deepest moment of possession you are not in me, I cannot reach you, I cannot get beyond your body...”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Следващия път, когато се влюбвам, ще трябва много да внимавам"
- помисли си тя. Обеща си още едно нещо, което възнамеряваше строго да спазва.
Никога повече да не тръгва с писател, колкото и очарователен, чувствителен, духовит или забавен да е той.
В крайна сметка писателите не си струваха усилието.
Емоционално излизаха прекалено скъпи, а и поддържането им беше много сложно.
те бяха като прахосмукачки, които все се повреждат, а само Айнщайн би могъл да поправи.
Искаше й се следващият й любовник да не е прахосмукачка, а най-обикновена метла.”
― Ричард Бротиган, Sombrero Fallout

“Начинът, по който някои хора пипат книги, е направо престъпен.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

“— Слушай какво ще ти кажа. Ако не превърнеш живота си в приказка, просто ставаш част от нечия друга приказка.
— А ако приказката ти не става?
— Сменяш я, докато не намериш такава, дето ще става.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents: The Play

“Всеки от нас е полуостров, наполовина свързан със сушата, наполовина обърнат към океана. Едната ни половина е свързана здраво със семейството, приятелите, културата, местната традиция, нацията, пола, езика и много други неща, а другата половина иска свободата да се обърне към океана.”
― Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic

“Голямата интимност се изражда в безкрайно отчуждение.”
― Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

“Разликата между маската, която си надяваш, за да постигнеш свобода, и маската, която ти се натрапва, е всъщност разликата между спасението и затвора.”
― Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

“An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

“In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame...”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

“But who for a moment can deceive the eyes of love?”
― Matthew Lewis, The Monk

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds himself assailed by partial and ill-humored criticism; one man finds fault with the plan, another with the style, a third with the precept which strives to inculcate; and they who cannot succeed in finding fault with the book, employ themselves in stigmatizing its author: they maliciously rake out from obscurity every little circumstance which may throw ridicule upon his private character or conduct and aim at wounding the man since they cannot hurt the writer.”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“Only those you trust can betray you.”
― Terry Goodkind

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch