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“There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child.”
― Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

“Love is not something that happens to a person, but something a person does for another person, every day, every moment.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Future Library

“Ordinary people listen to a huge amount of nonsense that they would be better off without.”
― Jonas Karlsson, The Room

“He applauded their idealism. And yes, music might be immortal, but composers alas are not.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Margareta greeted almost all of them in an equally warm and friendly way, which put me in an even worse mood seeing as she really ought to realize that she was devaluing the impact of her smile if she used it on everyone.”
― Jonas Karlsson, The Room

“Lenin found music depressing.
Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music.
Khrushchev despised music.
Which is the worst for a composer?”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“Fear: what did those who inflicted it know? They knew that it worked, even how it worked, but not what it felt like. ‘The wolf cannot speak of the fear of the sheep,’ as they say.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“It had become a valley of absurdities, my homeland.”
― Christian Kracht, Eurotrash

“I'm so small,” said the mole. “Yes,” said the boy, “but you make a huge difference.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“He is haggard, he is pale. A handsome young man, brown eyes and brown hair, something in his face that will never be at ease.”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise

“For she too has her little pains, and they wear her out, though she does not speak of them, or is not asked, and when they show themselves it tends to be when she's alone.”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise