Totoro

“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

“Samuel had strengthened the blood-tie between them, but no more than this. They would cherish each other in sickness and in health, walk through life sharing its pleasures and its sorrows, sleep side by side at night in the little room above the porch, grow old and frail, resting at last, not parted, in Lanoc Churchyard—but from the beginning to the end they would have no knowledge of one another. Janet’s feeling for Samuel ran parallel to her feeling for Thomas. The one was her husband, the other was her child. Samuel depended on her for care and for comfort until he should grow old enough to look after himself. She washed him and dressed him, seated him beside her in his high chair at table and fed him, helped him with his first steps and his first words, gave him all the tenderness and the affection he demanded from her. She gave to both Thomas and Samuel her natural spontaneity of feeling and a great simplicity of heart; but the spirit of Janet was free and unfettered, waiting to rise from its self-enforced seclusion to mingle with intangible things, like the wind, the sea, and the skies, hand in hand with the one for whom she waited. Then she, too, would become part of these things forever, abstract and immortal. Because”
― 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