Totoro

“Jennifer had exactly five pounds, six shillings, and fourpence halfpenny when she left No. 7 Maple Street. She lugged her two suitcases along with her into various buses, and arrived at Paddington with three-quarters of an hour to wait before the twelve o’clock train should bear her away from London forever. Thirty-two shillings and sixpence of her capital went on her third-class ticket, and three shillings more on a cup of coffee, two rashers of bacon, and a banana, for she had eaten no breakfast. During this wait she had time to think over her crazy flight from the boardinghouse. It had been her home since she was six years old, and she had left her mother without one pang of regret. “I must be terribly unnatural,” thought Jennifer sadly. “But it can’t be helped. I was probably born without a heart; I believe some people are.” She”
― Daphne du Maurier, The Loving Spirit

“Dust unto dust. There was no reason then for life—it was only a fraction of a moment between birth and death, a movement upon the surface of water, and then it was still. Janet had loved and suffered, she had known beauty and pain, and now she was finished—blotted by the heedless earth, to be no more than a few dull letters on a stone. Joseph”
― Daphne du Maurier, The Loving Spirit

“تیریان هرگز فکر نمی‌کرد که یکی از نتیجه‌های درست کردن اصلان قلابی به دست میمون این باشد که مردم اعتقادشان به اصلان حقیقی هم از بین برود”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“خانه ی توی کشور قدیمی یادت می آید؟ تو مرا تا هزار سال دوست داری؟" "تا ده هزار سال. تا ابد. زندگی بدون تو برای من هیچ ارزشی ندارد.چطور میتوانم ادامه دهم؟”
― sarah singleton, Century