“We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.”
― TransAtlantic
― TransAtlantic
“И жить — умереть, и не жить — умереть”
― A Time to Love and a Time to Die
― A Time to Love and a Time to Die
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
“Do you know what friendship is?' he asked.
'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.'
'And love?' pursued Gringoire.
'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.'
'And love?' pursued Gringoire.
'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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