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“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some ... Read Moresort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain. If there is a noise it s internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It trashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That s what it looks like and that s what it sounds like a trashing panicking trapped great big beast roaring like a prisoner to its own emotions. But that s the thing about love no one is untouchable.”
― Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

“Sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!”
― Sjon, The Blue Fox

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want. No one can be blamed for that.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“I begin to think that not everyone suffers in the same way; that not everyone, in fact, suffers. Not from the same things, at any rate. And in a way this is what made us possible, you and me.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“I guess it’s nice to be away from the crowd sometimes, to be able to hear yourself think. I go mad when I’m surrounded by others all the time.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“There were moments when I wanted to lie on the ground and feel the street’s concrete against my face. Just lie down, stop. To feel a heavy weight on me, feel my bones crack, feel myself drift off to sleep, for ever.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Little sparks cause fires too.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“And yet, it occurs to me now that we can never run with our lies indefinitely. Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. We can choose then when, not the if. And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“It's a very dangerous idea to like someone on the whole just because you like a part of her.”
― Jang Eun-Jin, No One Writes Back

“Each moment is a leap forwards from the brink of an invisible cliff, where time’s keen edges are constantly renewed. We lift our foot from the solid ground of all our life lived thus far, and take that perilous step out into the empty air. Not because we can claim any particular courage, but because there is no other way.”
― Han Kang, 흰

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“There is no such thing as a good father because the role itself is bad. Strict fathers, soft fathers, nice moderate fathers — one's as bad as another. They stand in the way of our progress while they try to burden us with their inferiority complexes, and their unrealized aspirations, and their resentments, and their ideals, and the weaknesses they've never told anyone about, and their sins, and their sweeter-than-honey dreams, and the maxims they've never had the courage to live by — they'd like to unload all that silly crap on us, all of it!”
― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

“Nije svatko kovac svog zivota. Nije nitko. Na neke stvari mozes utjecati, na neke ne. Nesto kujes, a nesto nosis kako ti je skovano. No, i jedno i drugo, i to sto kujes i to sto ti je skovano, zapravo su okovi. Sanduk iz kojeg ces kad tad morati izvuci ruku ili ces biti uhvacen.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn

“Ljudsko iskustvo se ne prenosi tako lako s koljena na koljeno kako neki misle. Svi, izgleda, moramo nauciti iz osobnih gresaka, zasluziti vlastite oziljke, kusati vlastita govna. Najvise stoga sto nam dse serviraju usminkane verzije proslosti, sadasnjosti i buducnosti, te pateticno-romanticne bajke o ljubavi, obitelji, bratstvu medju ljudima i zrtvama za domovinu i o covjecanstvu uopste. Gdje bismo inace danas dogurali da svakih sto godina makar imalo uznapredujemo, ali sve je isto od nastanka ljudskog svijeta.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn

“Cijeli je život jedna duga dženaza.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Nigdje, niotkuda

“Ono što smo zbilja mi, ono što se u literaturi naziva dušom, zbilja je vječno i luta svemirom, besciljno, besmisleno i beskonačno dugo. To je ono što u ljudskoj svijesti postoji kao pojam pakla. To i jest pakao. I samo sretnici, dakle mi, ja koji ovo pripovijedam i vi koji ovo čitate, dobili smo priliku, poput dobitka na lutriji, samo je u pitanju mnogo, mnogo veća sreća, beskrajno mnogo puta veća, da se materijaliziramo u ovom svijetu, u ovom tijelu, u ovom životu. Nakon smrti uistinu idemo na nebo, ali, vjerujte mi na riječ, tamo ne sviramo harfe.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Each moment is a leap forwards from the brink of an invisible cliff, where time's keen edges are constantly renewed.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“If there was a time when he would want to see her again, it would certainly be then. When both youth and flesh would have fallen away. When there would be no time left for desire. When only one thing would remain to be done once that meeting was over: to separate. To part from their own bodies, and thus to part forever.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“Nobody can help me. Nobody can save me. Nobody can make me breathe.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Why do old memories constantly drift to the surface here In this unfamiliar city?

When I go out into the streets, the scraps of conversation that pull into focus when the speaker brushes past me, the words stamped on street and stop signs, are almost all incomprehensible. At times my body feels like a prison, a solid, shifting island threading through the crowd. A sealed chamber carrying all the memories of the life I have lived and the mother tongue from which they are inseparable. The more stubborn the isolation, the more vivid these unlooked-for fragments, the more oppressive their weight. So that it seems the place I flee to is not so much a city on the other side of the world as further into my own interior.”
― han kang, The White Book

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Why, is it such a bad thing to die?”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian