Pati

“Jag skulle inte kalla folk motherfuckers och ställa ultimatum om att de skulle take it or leave it. Jag skulle göra köket till en dröm för mig själv. Ett kök som jag alltid vill kliva in i, där maten smakar godare och där det är välkomnande och roligt. Jag tror på dekoration när det gäller allt. Varför ska man inte göra saker och sig själv och hela världen så vacker som det bara går? Vi kommer alla dö, varför ska vi ha det torftigt fram till dess? (ch. 22, p.120)”
― Emma Hamberg, Je m’appelle Agneta

“I have never wanted to earn money for doing anything (...) I certainly never fantasised about a radiant future where I was paid to perform an economic role. Sometimes this felt like a failure to take an interest in my own life, which depressed me. On the other hand, I felt that my disinterest in wealth was ideologically healthy. (ch.3, p. 23)”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Don't go thinking poetry's just for sissies. There's mushy love poems, for sure, but there's also funny ones, lots about nature, war even. Whole point of it - they make ya feel something.' His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what's necessary to defend a woman. (...) The words made him think of Kya, Jodie's little sister. She'd seemed so small and alone in the mash's big sweep. He imagines his own sister lost out there. His dad was right - poems made you feel something.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“The argument went on and on, and they became locked in a confused rhetorical exchange that left them exhausted, each accusing the other of being more stubborn than a mule. But in the end they kissed each other good night and both were left with the feeling that the other was an extraordinary human being.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits