“Si tu as peur de te faire mal, tu augmentes les chances, justement, de te faire mal. Regarde les funambules, tu crois qu'ils pensent au fait qu'ils vont peut-être tomber lorsqu'ils marchent sur la corde raide ? Non, ils acceptent ce risque, et goûtent le plaisir que braver le danger leur procure. Si tu passes ta vie à faire attention de ne rien te casser, tu vas terriblement t'ennuyer tu sais...”
― La Mécanique du cœur
― La Mécanique du cœur
“La hauteur n'a pas beaucoup d'importance. Après tout, la vision peut être jolie, quel que soit le niveau de l'échelle sur lequel on se trouve. Tout dépend de ce qu'on regarde.”
― 13 à table ! 2014
― 13 à table ! 2014
“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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