“You re already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don t call their hockey team the Espoo Blues for nothing.”
“For now the world keeps turning and I keep breathing, in and out, in and out. I breathe in the life that is all around me, in this garden, in this city, in the fields beyond it, in the seas beyond them and the shores on the other side; life that reaches out towards the unreachable, unknowable space that is beyond all of us and the stars that burn there. The world may tip at any moment. But for now that doesn t matter.”
“Casas entre bananeiras mulheres entre laranjeiras pomar amor cantar. Um homem vai devagar. Um cachorro vai devagar. Um burro vai devagar. Devagar... as janelas olham. Eta vida besta, meu Deus.”
“We’ve yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain ‘life’ we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work ‘against’ the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work ‘with’ the whole of God’s character.”
“If you want to make room for something new, you must let go of something old that no longer serves you.”
“It s better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don t skip ahead”
“The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.”
“Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen.”
“My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly.”
“Nothing takes you away from dwelling in the past or worrying about the future like living in the present.”
“Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won t be disappointed and if they don t you ll be impressed.”
“As long as you’re breathing, your story’s still going.”
“May you begin living beyond.”
“The point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it.”
“Live your life in such a way that you can say I love my life and really mean it.”
“And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.”
“Any given day is a second chance, after yesterday. Make the best of it today.”