Selma Zilic > Selma's Quotes

“...The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the paradise where happy mares and stallion live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Colour is the touch of the eye,
Music to the deaf,
A word out of darkness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“Everything was believed except the truth.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I'm like that, nothing sticks.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I can't imagine finding anybody to take your place."

"You might not find a person that easily, but you could probably find a way without too much trouble," Aomama noted.

The dowager looked at Aomame calmly, her lips forming a satisfied smile. "That may be true," she said, "but I almost surely could never find anthing to take the place of what we are sharing here and now. You are you and only you. I'm very grateful for that. More grateful than I can say.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

“To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Child 44

“Trust but check. Check on those we trust.”
― Tom Rob Smith, Child 44

“Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“If Evil exists, it’s to be found in our fears”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’
Like a little lost Sputnik?’
I guess so.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Why are you staring at me?” she’d ask.
“‘Cause you’re pretty,” I’d reply.
“You’re the first one who’s ever said that.”
“I’m the only one who knows,” I’d tell her. “And believe me, I know.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?”
“Nothing is written in your eyes". I replied.
"It is written in my eyes and i see the reflection in yours”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Every life has a soundtrack.

There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the New York Times. There's the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel's sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose breath smelled like tomato soup.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“We Pisces, we're a special breed.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark