Leane Lossmann > Leane's Quotes

“Why focus on the one small thing that’s not perfect, when the rest is so good?”
― Beth Moran, Let It Snow

“it’s the value of authenticity. Being true to yourself and what you believe to be important in the small things as well as the big ones.”
― Beth Moran, Let It Snow

“What if I can’t live with myself, forcing you to make that choice, when I can live without you? When you’re my easy option, not the dream I could have had if I’d only dared to believe it.”
― Beth Moran, Let It Snow

“Tuesdays were meant for accidents, disappointments, and bad news. Long ago, the day was considered to belong to Mars, the god of war and blood. Now it just meant trouble—it meant that your past could come back to haunt you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

“Oh, you’re moonlight, he’d said. Harder to see, but there for those who look.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“In us, imagination is too mean for such great heights. And that’s no miracle. For no eye ever went beyond the sun.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“You’ll leave behind you all you hold most dear. And this will be the grievous arrow barb that exile, first of all, will shoot your way.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“And you will taste the saltiness of bread when offered by another’s hand – as, too, how hard it is to climb a stranger’s stair.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“All who, in wanting grace, do not seek help from you, might wish to soar yet lack the wings. Nor in your kindness do you give your aid to those alone who ask, but often run, before they ask, to them in generous freedom. In you is pity, in you compassion, in you all-giving power. All good in you is gathered up that creature form can bear.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Ugliness was the chance to make beautiful. Sadness was the chance to make glad.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don’t forget to love yourself.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Fynn, you can love better than any people that ever was, and so can I, can’t I? But Mister God is different. You see, Fynn, people can only love outside and can only kiss outside, but Mister God can love you right inside, and Mister God can kiss you right inside, so it’s different. Mister God ain’t like us; we are a little bit like Mister God, but not much yet.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Humanity in general had an infinite number of points of view, whereas Mister God had an infinite number of viewing points.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Mister God can know things and people from the inside too. We only know them from the outside, don’t we? So you see, Fynn, people can’t talk about Mister God from the outside; you can only talk about Mister God from the inside of him.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“It isn’t the Devil in humanity that makes man a lonely creature, it’s his Godlikeness. It’s the fullness of the Good that can’t get out or can’t find its proper ‘other place’ that makes for loneliness.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“I suppose to some extent all children have a touch of magic about them – like some mysterious living lens they seem to have the capacity to focus the light into the darkest and gloomiest of places – and this one had it in a very high degree. Perhaps it’s the very newness of the young, or perhaps it’s just because the shine hasn’t worn off, but they can and do, if you give them half a chance, make a dent in the toughest armour of life. If you’re very lucky they can dissolve away all those protective barricades so carefully erected over years of living.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Dying could be a bit of a problem, but not if you had really lived. Dying needed a certain amount of preparation and the only preparation for dying was real living,”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you. Do you understand that?”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“I began to realize why most people went to sleep in the night-time – it was easier. A whole lot easier.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“For Anna, ‘love’ meant the recognition of perfectibility in another. Anna ‘saw’ a person in every part. Anna ‘saw’ a ‘you’. Now that is something to experience, to be seen as a ‘you’, clearly and definitely, with no parts hidden. Wonderful and frightening.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Love everybody like you love yourself, and you’ve got to be full up with you to love yourself properly first.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“You don’t have to want things outside you to fill up the gaps inside you. You don’t leave bits of you hanging around on objects in shop-windows, in catalogues or on advertising hoardings. Wherever you go you take your whole self with you, you don’t leave bits lying around to get stamped on, you’re all of a piece,”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“The tricky bit was looking inside yourself to see what bits of the works were missing. Once you’d overcome that hurdle the rest was fairly simple.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Einstein said, “The weak revenge. The strong forgive. The intelligent ignore.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one. Albert Einstein said that.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk