Iro > Iro's Quotes

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“It’s stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“In the end, rage, no matter how profoundly justified, destroys the enraged. Just as we are created anew by what we love, so we are reduced and unmade by what we hate.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“You will see, as time goes by", said Ibn Rushd, "that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God's worst advocates.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Science is magic that works.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Όλοι ήμασταν έφηβοι,αλλά περπατημένοι έφηβοι,και ποιητές,και γελούσαμε.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Skating Rink

“Όλοι είμαστε συνηθισμένοι να πεθαίνουμε κάθε τόσο και σιγά σιγά,ώστε μέρα με τη μέρα γινόμαστε πιο ζωντανοί,είναι αλήθεια.Απείρως γέροι και απείρως ζωντανοί.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Skating Rink

“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents