Sascha Z

“Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Zudem spürt man bei Roger: Er ist gern da. Er sieht seine Präsenz nichteinfach als Termin, den er abarbeiten muss. Er muss in seinem Leben oft Nein sagen. Aber wenn er Ja sagt, ist er voll dabei, dann macht er keine halbenSachen und muss nebenbei nicht noch etwas anderes erledigen.”
― Luki Frieden

“It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself. I didn't see this in the contract when I signed up. Was this part of the deal?”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“Nadal did not just embrace the moment. He gave it a bear hug and lifted it off the ground with its heels kicking.”
― Christopher Clarey, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer