Wenn einen das Schicksal nicht zum Lachen bringt, dann hat man den Witz nicht kapiert.
If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.
And if you did this, if you saved your mother from this vicious killer, would you be doing the wrong thing or the right thing?""The right thing," I said just as swiftly."No, Lin, I'm afraid not," he f...
„Единствената победа, която наистина важи в затвора, е оцеляването — ми беше казало едно старо куче в австралийския затвор. Но оцеляване означава нещо повече от това просто да останеш жив. Не само тял...
„Ако съдбата не те разсмива — беше ми казала Карла в един от първите ни разговори — ти просто не схващаш шегата.
— Знаеш ли, Лин, от доста време си тук, понаучил си езика, ходи на село, живя в бордея, даже и в затвора лежа, заеби, и пак не загряваш, нали?— Може би не — съгласих се. — Сигурно не.— Точно така, пич...
Одиночество – это друг, всегда готовый составить компанию.
Each one of us, we all have to earn our future,’ she said slowly. ‘I think the future is like anything else that’s important. It has to be earned. If we don’t earn it, we don’t have a future at all. A...
Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.
If the hour comes, and there’s no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we...
I don’t know about the universe, but I’ll make a pact with you. I hereby promise that I’ll always dance in the rain at least once, in every one of my monsoons.
He says that strong men make the luck to happen,
Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they’re very tired.
But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her...
And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.
When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end.
What dream, what hope, what despair drives us to the things we do, just to desert us when the deed is done? What hollow things are they, motive and reason, born at night to fade so quickly in the sunl...
There’s a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex—a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-Palaeolithic ancesto...