Truffe

“Mida me üldse oma sõprade kohta teame? Kui sügavalt me nende suurimaid läbielamisi tegelikult mõistame? Võib-olla isegi mõistame, aga ega me ju ei taju. See on hämmastav, kui vähe me elu jooksul teiste inimeste kohta teada saame. Teiste elude kohta. Me näeme ainult seda, mis akendest paistab, ja mõtleme sealt ise edasi. Ja kuna teiste elusid elada ei saa, tuleb need ise välja mõelda.”
― Jim Ashilevi, Kehade mets

“His creation was a sort of new religion; the churches, gradually deserted by a wavering faith, were replaced by this bazaar, in the minds of the idle women of Paris. Women now came and spent their leisure time in his establishment, the shivering and anxious hours they formerly passed in churches: a necessary consumption of nervous passion, a growing struggle of the god of dress against the husband, the incessantly renewed religion of the body with the divine future of beauty.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Because I am still learning to walk and talk, and it is a million times easier to be cynical and wield a sword, than it is to be open-hearted and stand there, holding a balloon and a birthday cake, with the infinite potential to look foolish.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“They made you how they need you. They built you with all they know, and love—and so they can’t see what you’re not: all the gaps you feel leave you vulnerable. All the new possibilities only imagined by your generation, and nonexistent to theirs. They have done their best, with the technology they had to hand at the time—but now it’s up to you, small, brave future, to do your best with what you have.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl