Costel

“I let go of my checklist for a few seconds and watch it hover, then drift off serenely, instead of thumping to the ground. I feel like a little kid, like a sorcerer, like the luckiest person alive. I am in space, weightless, and getting here only took 8 minutes and 42 seconds.
Give or take a few thousand days of training.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Perhaps he had cracked something essential about how to have hope in a world of no promises, about how to carry forward on the darkest days.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“His father never raised his fists. Not to Ove or anyone else. Ove had classmates who came to school with black eyes or bruises from a belt buckle after a thrashing. But never Ove. “We don’t fight in this family,” his father used to state. “Not with each other or anyone else.” He was well liked down at the railway, quiet but kind. There were some who said he was “too kind.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Aș fi rămas de o sută de ori și aș fi plecat o singură dată, și totuși... am plecat.”
― Mihail Drumeş