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Marcel Praust z “Listu do matki”:

“Bo wolę już mieć napady duszności i być takim, jak Ci się podoba, niż nie podobać się Tobie i nie cierpieć.”

“”Wychowanie” oparte na przemocy jest dla mnie równoznaczne ze znęcaniem się […] Człowiek dorosły powiela potem ten wzorzec wychowania w odniesieniu do własnych dzieci, do partnerów, w miejscu pracy, w polityce; zawsze wtedy, gdy próbuje z pozycji siły bronić się przed lękiem tkwiącego w nim zdezorientowanego dziecka. Stąd biorą się dyktatorzy i ludobójcy”

“If a man is sufficiently unimaginative to produce evidence in support of a lie, he might just as well speak the truth at once.”

“Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.”

A beautiful way to perceive the mind of someone who’s slowly losing their memory: “I like to think of everyone he loves as a gallery of Picasso paintings that hang in his mind - in a constant state of fascinating rearrangement, rather than in the process of erasure.”

“ Love is being the guardian of another person’s solitude. Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person’s hope. “

I’m totally gagged at how full of touching observations this book is. I admire Dolly Alderton’s way with words, the way she manages to create a story so real, down to earth, but so beautiful and poetic at the same time.

“Lola, what’s your love language?
”Lola shrugged - I don’t know. Anal, probably.”

HOW DOES THIS AUTHOR MANAGE TO COMBINE IN ONE STORY BOTH MOMENTS AS FUNNY AS THE ONE ABOVE WITH THOUGHTS SO PERCEPTIVE AND BRILLIANT???

“I’ve done it before, and it always gets their attention.
Do you really want that from these men? Their attention?
No - she said.
What do you want?
Their love.”