Timea Tarczy

“Every man she dates, she thinks they're going to solve all her problems, make her this better woman, the one she ought to be. The woman she doesn't know how to make herself be...”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“The native level is when our countryman is taken for a native-born French, Russian, Brit, etc.; i.e., when he or she starts speaking Hungarian in Paris, Moscow, or London, people will ask in amazement: what is this interesting- sounding language and who put it in your head to learn it?”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“Egy indiai diák útlevelét forgatta az úgynevezett immigration officer. „Utazásának célja: tanulmányút” – olvasta hangosan.
– És mi lesz a tanulmány tárgya? – érdeklődött.
– Lav -felelte a diák, aki nyilván csak leírva látta a „law” (jog) szót, és ezért úgy ejtette ki, mint a „love”-t (szerelem).
A tisztviselőnek, angol hidegvérrel, a szeme sem rebbent meg. Átengedte az utast a kordonon, és csak magának morogta, hogy a „love” többé-kevésbé az egész világon egyforma: annak a kis különbségnek tanulmányozására igazán nem volt érdemes ennyi ezer kilométert megtenni.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“You don’t think they love each other?” “My daughter doesn’t fully love people yet,” Patricia says. “Not the way she will.” “What do you mean?” Phoebe asks. “I mean she loves Gary the way that I love this cocktail. The way that I have come to love a foam body pillow. The way I loved Henry at the start, when I thought love was about getting something from people. I fell in love with what Henry gave me. And he gave me so much. He truly did. But loving someone like that doesn’t make you a better woman. Only losing them does.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People