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“In a little while it would be different, there would come tomorrow, and the next day, and another year. And we would be changed perhaps, never sitting quite like this again. Some of us would go away, or suffer, or die; the future stretched away in front of us, unknown, unseen, not perhaps what we wanted, not what we planned. This moment was safe though, this could not be touched.” 🌺

6/5 ⭐️ what a work of art this book is ⭐️

“Maybe you’ll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose his hunger to make a perfect cup —thin, strong, translucent? All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that-more fire.
Can you think that whatever made us-would stop trying?”

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

🌾“And the Lord said unto him, "Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.'"

Rodicuț, mi-a fost dor de tine 🥹

There's a blackness on this valley. I don't know what it is, but I can feel it. Sometimes on a white blinding day I can feel it cutting off the sun and squeezing the light out of it like a sponge. There's a black violence on this valley. It's as though some old ghost haunted it out of the dead ocean below and troubled the air with unhappiness. It's as secret as hidden sorrow. I see it and feel it in the people here"

"I'll have you know that a soldier is the most holy of all humans because he is the most tested of all. Look now- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced.
Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.”

Is this going to be the best book of 2026? 🤞🏻

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like-how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”

“He tried to love Moscow again and miss it again, but he couldn't. It was a hoax. It was nothing but an empty cardboard cutout after all, and the dead people in it were only cardboard cutout people, and their grief was molded out of papier-mâché. Everything was arranged like this for an audience: Supposedly for the one underground, but really for the one across the ocean.”

Vreau dreptate pentru Oleg și găină Riubușka 😭😭😭 Don’t touch my babies 🐓🥚👴🏼

4,5 ⭐️

Ce face o carte să reziste testul timpului?
Mesajul care își găsește audiența în fiecare generație.
Povestea lui Anthony și Gloria este la fel de autentică astăzi ca în Epoca de aur și descrie tragedia unui cuplu care nu are valori și direcție, doi oameni care au trăit clipa.