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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“In the end, what matters is this: I survived.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar. A strong gust of wind could dislodge me completely, and I’d lift off and blow away, like one of those seeds in a dandelion clock. The threads tighten slightly from Monday to Friday.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“எத்தனை வருசக்கணக்காய் உடனிருந்தாலும் சில சந்தர்ப்பங்கள் அமையும்போதுதான் சில முகங்கள் தென்படுகின்றன. சந்தர்ப்பங்களே வாய்க்காமல் உள்ளே மூடிக் கிடக்கும் முகங்கள் எத்தனையோ. வெளிப்படாமலே அவை புதைந்துபோய் விடுகின்றன.”
― Perumal Murugan, Mathorubagan

“தன்னிடமிருப்பது மற்றவனிடம் இல்லை என்றால் மிகப் பெரிய தலைக்கிறுக்கு வந்துவிடுகிறது. எல்லாருக்கும் எல்லாம் இருக்கிறதா? எப்போதும் ஏதாவது குறையத்தான் செய்யும்.”
― Perumal Murugan, Mathorubagan

“The old couple was so overwhelmed by their own good fortune that they were unable to sleep, Grief-stricken at having lost all her kids at one stroke, Poonachi couldn't sleep either.”
― பெருமாள் முருகன் [Perumal Murugan], Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

“It's an awful thing to miss someone who's still here.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Almost all grown adults walk around full of regret over a good-bye they wish they’d been able to go back and say better.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“But the universe gave you both Noah. He’s the bridge between you. That’s why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we’re apologizing to our children.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Isn’t that the best of all life’s ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild. When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems to be even greater than our fear of dying.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“The teacher wanted us to write what we thought the meaning of life was once.” “What did you write?” “Company.” Grandpa closes his eyes. “That’s the best answer I’ve heard.” “My teacher said I had to write a longer answer.” “So what did you do?” “I wrote: Company. And ice cream.” Grandpa spends a moment or two thinking that over. Then he asks: “What kind of ice cream?” Noah smiles. It’s nice to be understood.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“It hurts less and less. That's one thing about forgetting things. You forget things that hurt too.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“And I don’t think you need to be scared of forgetting me,” the boy says
“No?”
“No. Because if you forget me then you’ll just get the chance to get to know me again. And you’ll like that, because I’m actually a pretty cool person to get to know.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“I know that the way home is getting longer and longer every morning. But I loved you because your brain, your world, was always bigger than everyone else’s. There’s still a lot of it left.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“It's a big universe to be angry at but a long life to have company in.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“I get old when you leave me. Every wrinkle on my face is a good-bye from you”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“promise me something, one very last thing: once your good-bye is perfect, you have to leave me and not look back. Live your life. It’s an awful thing to miss someone who’s still here.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Why are you holding my hand so tight, Grandpa?” the boy whispers
again.
“Because all of this is disappearing, Noahnoah. And I want to keep hold
of you longest of all.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“I'm constantly reading a book with a missing page, and it's always the most important one.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“She got lost in my heart, I think. Couldn’t find her way out. Your grandma always had a terrible sense of direction. She could get lost on an escalator.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“The years will allow them to meet in the middle, when the boys thoughts expand and grandpa’s contract.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Noah’s feet don’t touch the ground when his legs dangle over the edge of the bench, but his head reaches all the way to space, because he hasn’t been alive long enough to allow anyone to keep his thoughts on Earth.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Never in my life have I asked myself how I fell in love with her, Noahnoah. Only the other way around.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer