Maria > Maria's Quotes

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I wonder if it is okay to love something only when you are looking for it to stitch you up.”
― Madisen Kuhn, Bad At Existing: Poems

“i hold on to
the way the air feels in october
it brings out the best in me”
― Madisen Kuhn, Almost Home: Poems

“It is a comfort to know  That all I have to do is nothing In the moments I am afraid  Of invisible things”
― Madisen Kuhn, Bad At Existing: Poems

“Words are free, she tried to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers.”
― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“Миналото не е само това, което ти се е случило. Понякога е онова, което само си съчинявал.”
― Георги Господинов, Времеубежище

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“La felicità, a volte, è solo constatare que nulla è mutato.”
― Ilaria Tuti, Fiore di roccia

“Не е

Не е поливал.

Не е хранил.

Не е човек за вярване.

Не е мой човек.”
― Екатерина Йосифова

“ИМА НЕЩО МЕЖДУ МЕНЕ И ЛЮБОВТА

Казвам:
ти си ми брат, ти си като мене.
Думите ти ме пресрещат, мислите, ръцете.
В мене си и ме обгръщаш,
най-добре от всичко,
като въздуха, от водата по-добре.

А мисля:
Толкова се е насъбрало,
че вече никога, никога, никога,
никой не ще може да се приближи до мене
истински.”
― Екатерина Йосифова, Нощем иде вятър

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.

Information is control.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Orfeo: Io cercavo, piangendo, non più lei ma me stesso. Un destino, se vuoi. Mi ascoltavo. [...] Il mio destino non tradisce. Ho cercato me stesso. Non si cerca che questo. [...] Visto dal lato della vita tutto è bello. Ma credi a chi è stato tra i morti... Non vale la pena. [...] E voi godetela la festa. Tutto è lecito a chi non sa ancora. È necessario che ciascuno scenda una volta nel suo inferno. L'origine del mio destino è finita nell'Ade, finita cantando secondo i miei modi la vita e la morte.
Bacca: E che vuol dire che un destino non tradisce?
Orfeo: Vuol dire che è dentro di te, cosa tua; più profondo del sangue, di là da ogni ebbrezza. nessun dio può toccarlo.”
― Cesare Pavese

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People