“And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.”
“Per quanto ammirevole, il tuo bisogno impellente di sacrificare l esistenza per il bene di un altra persona poteva dipendere dal fatto che quando avevi la vita interamente nelle tue mani, non sapevi che fartene. Immolarsi a volte è un inutile scappatoia.”
“In true love, one has no reservations.True love is unquestionable,indisputable and totally recognizable.”
“And God said: Let there be light, and there was light. Lena opened her eyes, feeling as if someone had been reading this verse out loud in the room. She looked around. Another morning dawned, and the sky glowed. Why did God say the word light out loud? Wasn’t it enough for him just to think of light for there to be light? And did he summon the light to one specific place? Or only to some places? Perhaps he summoned the light everywhere. Her eyes followed the sun’s beams that poured through the shutter slats, creating luminous flecks of gold that sparkled against the cabinet across from her. Tiny motes floated in the light and disappeared in the dark. Who did God created the light for?”
“The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire”
“Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.”
“There s 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.”
“When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others; if that doesn t happen there is nothing wrong with God s finger there is something wrong with your heart”
“You call me the unhuman, it might say to him, and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contemptible because I sought my better self outside me; I was the unhuman because I dreamed of the human ; I resembled the pious who hunger for their true self and always remain poor sinners ; I thought of myself only in comparison to another; enough, I was not all in all, was not—unique.[102] But now I cease to appear to myself as the unhuman, cease to measure myself and let myself be measured by man, cease to recognize anything above me: consequently—adieu, humane critic! I only have been the unhuman, am it now no longer, but am the unique, yes, to your loathing, the egoistic; yet not the egoistic as it lets itself be measured by the human, humane, and unselfish, but the egoistic as the—unique.”
“Wandering is never waste, dear boy, he said. While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.”
“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”