“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Name one hero who was happy.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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