Nibi

“Wschodnioeuropejscy Żydzi stworzyli barwny świat. Mieli język i literaturę, mieli swoich cadyków i bankierów, uczonych i rzemieślników, socjalistów i chasydów, swoje dania, melodie, żarty, stroje, westchnienia, gesty i sposób trzymania głowy. Mieli "rzewny czar",który brał się z mieszanki intelektualizmu i mistycyzmu. Nie ma tego świata. Nieliczni ocaleni nie dają wyobrażenia o nim.”
― Hanna Krall, Dowody na istnienie

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

“Meeting you was a disaster.”
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful for that disaster. I needed a catastrophe to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”
“I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”
“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies