“Fiecare dintre noi a inteles, probabil, atunci ca nu exista mai tarziu . Ca tot ce nu traim ramane netrait. Eu, oricum, aveam gust de cenusa in gura. A fost prima oara cand am simtit ca orice amanare e o iluzie si o moarte. Ca a tergiversa e o forma de a muri.”
“Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.”
“Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?”
“Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn”
“Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.”
“I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.”
“When your diary is full and your life is empty, get a date”
“If you think like others, how can you be sure you re thinking at all?”
“What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.”
“No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the exterior also...True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.”
“To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of.”
“Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are”
“It’s important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it’s not through a small screen”
“Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.”
“Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials”
“All life is theatre, he said. We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....”
“A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.”