Masha Tkalenko > Masha's Quotes

“Имате два избора: да завладеете со својата свест или да ддозволите таа да завладее со вас. Вторава можност ви е позната - им се имате препуштано на стравовите, на неврозите, на несигурностите - зашто на човекот му е всадена тенденцијата за самоуништување”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“Don't dare a person who has nothing else left to lose.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“За предавство потребен е страв, за одмазда љубов, за умирање живот, а за копнеж - отсуство поприсутно од присуството треба да се има.”
― Венко Андоновски

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel's Game

“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the
priest's words or the faces of the guests, full of hope, who filled the church on that March
morning. All that remains in my memory is the touch of her lips and, when I half opened
my eyes, the secret oath I carried with me and would remember all the days of my life.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“[Carlos] Ruiz Zafon holds dear the belief that when you read a book, you take a holiday in the brain of the writer.”
― Helen Pitts

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

“We are the sum total of our memories.
Memories are the most precious things we have.
Good or bad.
That's what make us who we are.
What would we be without them?”
― Alexandra Potter, Don't You Forget About Me

“- Ne treba se bojati ljudi.
- Pa ja se i ne bojim ljudi, nego onog što je neljudsko u njma.”
― Ivo Andrić

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“People like to cry over spilled milk, but I cry every time I spill my coffee.”
― Anthony Liccione

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa