Erika > Erika 's Quotes

“Over and over, we begin again.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“Después no es que la vida vaya como tú te la imaginas. Sigue su camino. Y tú el tuyo. Y no son el mismo camino. Es así… No es que yo quisiera ser feliz, eso no. Quería… salvarme, eso es, salvarme. Pero comprendí tarde por qué lado había que ir: por el lado de los deseos. Uno espera que sean otras cosas las que salven a la gente: el deber, la honestidad, ser buenos, ser justos. No, los deseos son los que nos salvan. Son lo único verdadero. Si estás con ellos, te salvarás. Pero lo comprendí demasiado tarde. Si a la vida le das tiempo, muestra extraños recovecos, inexorables: y adviertes que, llegado ese momento, no puedes desear nada sin hacerte daño.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

“If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"

Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.”
― Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

“If you're sloppy, that's just fine.
If you're moody, I won't mind.
If you're fat, that's fine with me.
If you're skinny, let it be.
If you're bossy, that's all right.
if you're nasty, I won't fight.
If you're rough, well that's just you.
If you're mean, that's all right too.
Whatever you are is all okay.
I don't like you anyway.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”
― Anais Nin, Henry & June

“It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you will never live.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

“- È uno strano dolore.
Piano.
- Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.”
― Alessandro Baricco

“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

“Reasons get forgotten.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Silk

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Los gatos que salen de las casas no dudan un instante en cruzar fronteras que sólo existen para los humanos.”
― Takashi Hiraide, The Guest Cat

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You’re a normal human being. What right have you to that?”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“¿Pero cuánto durará esta belleza? A las mujeres nos entristece pensar en eso”
― Yasunari Kawabata , Beauty and Sadness

“She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des Boutiques Obscures

“Nada le perturbaba el sueño. Todavía no tenía memoria.”
― Patrick Modiano, Libro de familia

“Mientras contemplaba al presidente tendido en el sarcófago de cristal, recordé la sensación de cataclismo que había tenido dos años antes al oír la noticia de su fallecimiento; el desengaño al descubrir que en el mundo no había dioses. Ni en sueños habríamos creído que el presidente Mao moriría un día, pero murió. Creíamos que si se moría el presidente Mao, sería el fin de China. Pero llevaba dos años muerto, y el país no sólo no había llegado a su fin, sino que iba mejorando paulatinamente [...]”
― Mo Yan, Change

“That girl enjoyed everything that bored me and everything that I enjoyed bored her. We were the perfect mates: what kept us going was the tolerable and intolerable distance between us. We kept meeting each day—and each night—with nothing solved and no chance to solve it. Perfection.”
― Charles Bukowski, Shakespeare Never Did This: A 1978 Travel Memoir of Germany, Paparazzi, Racetracks, and Cathedrals

“But that’s the trouble with a drunk: if he gets excited he drinks too much, if he gets bored he drinks too much, if he has good luck he drinks too much, if he has bad luck he drinks too much, and so on.”
― Charles Bukowski, Shakespeare Never Did This: A 1978 Travel Memoir of Germany, Paparazzi, Racetracks, and Cathedrals

“Se podes olhar, vê. Se podes ver, repara.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside”
― José Saramago, All the Names