Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life. Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is tha...
THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards,
What characterises the human race more, Karla once asked me, cruelty, or the capacity to feel shame for it? I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I’m lonelier and wise...
Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat. She’s
Одиночество – это друг, всегда готовый составить компанию.
«Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает».
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...
He says that strong men make the luck to happen,
The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.
The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, w...
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting,
There are many things I have done that I can say, I am not proud. But there is only one act in my whole life that I can say, I am truly ashamed of it. I hurried past that great man, and I had money en...
If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid i...
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
Kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like. I
The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.
The pages were dog-eared, and heavily annotated in Karla's own hand. (...) She consumed her books, I saw. She devoured her books, and was unafraid to mark them, even to scar them, with her own comment...
People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.
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