Bertram Ohland

“لا أعتقد أن في استطاعتي أن أحبك كثيرًا إذا لم يكن هناك شيئًا تشكو منه أو تندم عليه. أن لا أحب الناس التي لم تسقط أو تتعثر أبدًا. فضيلتهم بلا حياة ولا قيمة. الحياة لم تكشف جمالها لهم.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

“There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.”
― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls