…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentle...

…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I tol...

…Holy crap! Rachel wondered what it was about extreme disaster that made people invoke both religion and excrement - bookends to mark the polarities of human condition?

… Education is a process, not a place. Education can and must go on everywhere all the time-in schools, offices, at home, online, in the classroom, over your iPod…

… убеждението, което ние всички храним на тази възраст, че семействата на нашите приятели са много симпатични, по-приятни и интересни – с една дума, по-желани, – отколкото нашите собствени?

… она слышала <…> глубокую, пропитанную запахом растоптанных цветов тишину («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

… you were better making history than studying it.

… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind into language that can be absorbed and assimilated into the...

… where gradually as you peered trying to make it out gradually of all things a face appeared…

… when you blame any outside force for any of your experience of life, you are literally giving away all your power and thus creating pain, paralysis and depression.

… to survive something we first need to know what it is we are surviving

… there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn’t how things went.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

… the secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power.

… the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions...

… the great and fundamental principles of their policy are, that every man is naturally free and independent, that no one … on earth has any right to deprive him of his freedom and independency, and t...

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other o...

… so that you won’t become lazy, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance. Hebrews 6:12

… she claimed it’s a sign of God’s mercy that He won’t let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can’t bear and won’t let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, th...