Maya

“отсутствие взаимопонимания с вышеупомянутыми окружающими – это, вероятно, такой специальный сертификат душевного качества: пока вас никто не понимает, можете быть уверены, что вы на более-менее правильном пути”
― Max Frei, Энциклопедия мифов. Подлинная история Макса Фрая, автора и персонажа. Том 1. А-К

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“называя тебя «оверсайдером», я имел в виду, что дистанция между тобой и всем остальным настолько велика, словно ты из иллюминатора космического корабля за нами подглядываешь. Без особого, впрочем, интереса…”
― Max Frei, Энциклопедия мифов. Подлинная история Макса Фрая, автора и персонажа. Том 1. А-К

“Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your personality, just as food builds up the body of a growing boy; it is not an ornament to decorate a phrase, still less to show off your knowledge, but a means, painfully acquired, to enrich the soul.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Ten Novels and Their Authors