Status Updates From The Train Was On Time (The ...

Reading the last page of this book and I am heavily confused and I had to Google the ending so it could be dumbed down for me

"I needed to come here to find out that there is such a thing as love without desire, the way I love Olina"

"these tears were life, a raging torrent formed from countless streams"

So I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the last few pages back Andrea and the prostitute have kind of fallen into weird love and I'm trying to wrap my head round it

"Every death is murder, every death in war is a murder for which some is responsible."

"The last night was beginning, and the last day had passed like all the others, wasted and meaningless."

I think he just verbalised my greatest fear

"I wanted to be a pianist too."

"Life is beautiful, he thought, it was beautiful. Twelve hours before my death I have to find out that life is beautiful, and it's too late. I've been ungrateful, I've denied the existence of human happiness. And life was beautiful."

"There are such an infinite number of ways to die."

Thank you for reminding me of this as someone who has a chronic fear of death

"It's a terrible thing to maltreat a person because that person seems ugly to you."

Beautiful sentence right? He just discussed pushing a prostitute and verbally abusing her and said he probably wouldn't have done it if she was pretty

"I must say my prayers now, and above all repent. There's always so much to repent; even in an unhappy life like mine there are a lot of things to repent."

"I played cards. I drank. I ate and really enjoyed my food, and I slept. I slept too much, and time has leaped forwards, time always leaps forwards, and now here I am twenty-four hours away from it. I've done nothing: after all, when you know you're going to die..."

"He had sung them too sometimes, without knowing or wanting to, those songs that had been sunk into them, buried in them, drilled into them so as to kill their thoughts."

"It was terrible to be always among men, men were so womanish."

"That's wonderful, he thought, crying is wonderful, crying is good for you, crying, crying, what wretched creature has never cried?"

"God, I wouldn't want to be a woman. Always waiting ... waiting ... waiting ... waiting."

"I've slept for ten hours, and now I'm hungry again, and I've got forty-eight hours to live."

"Unhappiness is life, pain is life."

"But the silence of those who said nothing, nothing at all, was terrible. It was the silence of those who knew they were all done for."

"Once we start a war, that war is won."

This book is decades old but you can still hear men in power making statements like this today