Parsa

“There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes for both.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.”
― Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da

“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders