“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Courage for the big troubles in life, patience for the small. And when you have laboriously finished your day's efforts, go to sleep in peace. Be of good cheer.”
― My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
― My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
“Ik wist dat het snel gedaan zou zijn met de rust, maar op dat moment gebeurde er nog niets: ik was er en de masseria was er, en er waren woorden uitgesproken, lucht die in andere lucht was geblazen.”
― Divorare il cielo
― Divorare il cielo
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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