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“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“קיוויתי שתחסך ממני ההעפלה המאומצת בסולם החיים. ייחלתי שבדרך לבית הספר תקרה תאונה אטומית-מגנטית, וכמו ספיידרמן או באטמן אהפוך מילד בשיכון לגיבור-על עם תכונות-על וחיי-על. לפני התאונה גם ספיידרמן לא ידע מה יהיה, שכב על מיטתו בעיניים פקוחות בלי לדעת מה יעשה, ופתאום, במקום מישהו רגיל שלא נועד להצטיין בשום דבר - ספיידרמן.
החרדות תכפו: ומה אם לא תהיה לי תאונה אטומית? ומה אם לא אפול לבוץ רדיואקטיבי?”
― בשבילה גיבורים עפים
החרדות תכפו: ומה אם לא תהיה לי תאונה אטומית? ומה אם לא אפול לבוץ רדיואקטיבי?”
― בשבילה גיבורים עפים
“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
“But what if he is your friend?” Achilles had asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. “Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?”
“You ask a question that philosophers argue over,” Chiron had said. “He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?”
We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.
He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all.
I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
― The Song of Achilles
“But what if he is your friend?” Achilles had asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. “Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?”
“You ask a question that philosophers argue over,” Chiron had said. “He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?”
We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.
He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all.
I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.”
― The Song of Achilles
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