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“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Perhaps home, like the moon will follow wherever she goes.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“Well—I have to say I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can’t exist without the other. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how. But you—wrapped up in judgment, always regretting the past, cursing yourself, blaming yourself, asking ‘what if,’ ‘what if.’ ‘Life is cruel.’ ‘I wish I had died instead of.’ Well—think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no—hang on—this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can’t get there any other way?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.”
― Sandor Marai, Esther's Inheritance

“Nem hiszek a véletlen találkozásokban. A világ törvénye olyan, ami egyszer elkezdődött, azt be is kell fejezni. Nem valami nagy öröm ez. Semmi sem érkezik idejében, semmit sem ad az élet akkor, amikor felkészültünk rá. Sokáig fáj ez a rendetlenség, ez a késés. Azt hisszük, játszik velünk valaki. De egy napon egyszer észrevesszük, hogy csodálatos rend és rendszer volt mindenben... két ember nem találkozhat egy nappal sem előbb, csak amikor megértek e találkozásra. Megértek nem éppen szeszélyeikkel vagy hajlamaikkal, hanem belülről, valamilyen kivédhetetlen csillagászati törvény szerint, ahogy az égitestek találkoznak a végtelen térben és időben, hajszálnyi pontossággal, ugyanabban a másodpercben amely az ő másodpercük az évmilliárdok és a tér végtelenségei között.”
― Márai Sándor

“They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen...”
― Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

“Ez így van; az ember mániákusan, veszendően, a pokol és halál határán vágyódik valaki után, keresi, kergeti, hiába és élete elsorvad a nosztalgiában. Amióta Rómában volt, állandóan ezt a pillanatot várta, erre készült, és már-már azt hitte, hogy sosem fog Évával beszélni. És azután egyszerre megjelenik, és akkor az ember olcsó pizsamáját a mellén összeszorítja, szégyelli, hogy kócos, borotválatlan, mérhetetlenül szégyelli lakását, és legjobb szeretné, ha nem lenne ott az, aki után kimondhatatlanul vágyódott.”
― Antal Szerb, Utas És Holdvilág

“The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind of electricity buzzing up toward you, Your Excellency. It just happens, the way you get erect around girls wearing tight jeans.
"Except here what happens is that your brain starts to hum.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Ya need some girlfriends, hon, ’cause they’re furever. Without a vow. A clutch of women’s the most tender, most tough place on Earth.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“To be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for yourself. And to trust that there is enough, that you are enough.”
― Edith Eva Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“Just remember, no one can take away from you what you've put in your own mind.”
― Edith Eva Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“It’s strange, but you never stop caring about someone, even if you don’t want to be with them any more.”
― Josie Silver, One Day in December

“Out of all the opportunities Britain offered us, choice was the most important thing.”
― Balli Kaur Jaswal, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

“You come across something and think, I don’t want that, and later, you’re obsessed with getting it and it’s no longer available.”
― Balli Kaur Jaswal, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

“We turn memories into stories, and if we don’t, we lose them. If the stories are gone, then the people are gone too.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“we keep the people we love in our hearts. We never lose them as long as we can remember how it felt to be loved by them.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“My grandfather told me once that happiness is an expression of gratitude. And it’s never wrong to be grateful.”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet”
― Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas

“To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.”
― Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas

“There was no use trying to think of a way, because it was impossible. And the only way you could make something impossible real wasn't through logic or sensible thinking. No. It was to believe it could be done.”
― Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas

“You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“that just because you never thought about someone didn’t mean they weren’t inside you.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven