Le plus dur, c'est d'être femme. Etre femme et aspirer à autre chose que de passer sa vie dans la cuisine. Autrement dit: avoir du courage, oser aller plus loin.
Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund
I was beginning to suspect that the fire had destroyed something inside me. People can have load-bearing beams that give way too.
I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every genuine work of art contains a small fragment...
He had never been particularly inclined to philosophical meditation. He had never felt a need to delve into himself. Life was a continual interplay among various practical questions awaiting a solutio...
Desconfío de la gente que dice que nunca tiene miedo. Creo que mienten. No tanto a mí como a sí mismos.
Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.
¿No será que hay sentimientos tan fuertes que, sencillamente, no pueden expresarse con palabras, sino que hay que cantarlos?
There’s no such thing as a murderer’s face, he said. You imagine something: a profile, a hairline, a set of the jaw. But it never matches up.
That would never have worked. You can’t be a hired hand for your own father. Especially when he makes all the decisions, and is always right.
Si se diera el caso de un dolor insoportable que no se pudiera paliar, podría pedir que me sedaran. Así abandonaría durmiendo esta vida y este mundo. Prefiero eso que tener que suicidarme. Es algo que...
Recalling the dream was like trying to follow a ship into fog.
People have faces. […] Spirits don’t have faces. And yet we recognise them. We know who is who. Spirits don’t have eyes or mouths or ears either. And yet they can see and speak and hear. […] The spiri...
Para la mayoría de las personas, la vida consiste en algo que no consiguen acabar.
Las posibilidades de elección que tiene una persona permiten también que pueda atreverse a elegir de qué lado quiere estar en una sociedad injusta, que vive en tensión entre los distintos campos de fu...
I’m afraid I am hopelessly, furiously envious of all those who will continue to live when I am dead. I am equally embarrassed and terrified by the thought. I try to deny it, but it recurs with increas...
If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.
I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.
I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to.You should have said the Doctor everybody should.
He wondered if he was simply starting to crumble under the weight of all the responsibility and was now on a downward trajectory to a point where only fear remained. He