Tim Todorov > Tim's Quotes

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
― Steve Jobs

“Он был человек загадочный, а загадочных сперва уважают, а потом уж любят или презирают, смотря по тому, чем обернется эта загадочность.”
― Vasily Shukshin, Любавины

“But at least I tried”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“The child is grown, the dream is gone”
― Pink Floyd

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Sally Rooney , Normal People

“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“I don't know what's wrong with me, says Marianne. I don't know why I can't be like normal people.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Suddenly he can spend an afternoon in Vienna looking at Vermeer’s The Art of Painting, and it’s hot outside, and if he wants he can buy himself a cheap cold glass of beer afterwards. It’s like something he assumed was just a painted backdrop all his life has revealed itself to be real: foreign cities are real, and famous artworks, and underground railway systems, and remnants of the Berlin Wall. That’s money, the substance that makes the world real. There’s something so corrupt and sexy about it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It’s not like this with other people, she says.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“No. I was frustrated sometimes but not lonely. I never feel lonely when I'm with you.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Anyway, she says. How are you?
He knows the question is meant honestly. He’s not someone who feels comfortable confiding in others, or demanding things from them. He needs Marianne for this reason. This fact strikes him newly. Marianne is someone he can ask things of. Even though there are certain difficulties and resentments in their relationship, the relationship carries on. This seems remarkable now, and always moving.
Something kind of weird happened to me in the summer, he said. Can I tell you about it?”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“He touches his lips to her skin and she feels holy, like a shrine.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“His appearance is like a favourite piece of music to her, sounding a little different each time she hears it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“because she was never really his girlfriend, she's not even his ex-girlfriend. She's nothing.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“- I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne.
- In what way? he says.
- I don’t know why I can’t make people love me. I think there was
something wrong with me”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Открыв дверцу машины, он заключил:
— Нам это зачтется. И если на том свете будет Страшный суд, встретим его смело: на земле мы не колебались исполнять свой долг.”
― Александр Бек, Volokolamsk Highway