Đinh Anh Phương

“It is curious to look back over life, over all the varying incidents and scenes - such a multitude of odds and ends. Out of them all what has mattered? What lies behind the selection that memory has made? What makes us choose the things that we have remembered? It is as though one went to a great trunk full of junk in an attic and plunged one's hands into it and said, 'I will have this - and this - and this.”
― Agatha Christie

“Tôi thầm nhủ, con người đúng là rất tham lam. Đôi khi, nghĩ đến sự ngắn ngủi của đời người, tôi thấy hơi buồn. Trước khi gặp Yuko, tôi chẳng bao giờ nghĩ đến những chuyện này, nhưng giờ hễ nghĩ đến việc thời gian mình được ở bên em chỉ có năm, sáu chục năm nữa là trong lòng lại thấy tiếc nuối. Có điều, kể cả là một, hai trăm năm, chắc hẳn cũng sẽ có cảm giác như vậy thôi.”
― Ichikawa Takuji

“I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.”
― Anonymous

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five