Ion > Ion's Quotes

“Nu-i vina aramei dacă se trezeşte trâmbiţă!”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
― John Waters, Role Models

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There isno feeling sadder or more hopeless than the coolingof a friendship between two men. Between a man anda woman a delicate web of terms and conditions is always negotiated. Between men, on the other hand, the deep sense of friendship rests on its selflessness: we expect no sacrifices, no tenderness from each other, all we want is to preserve a pact wordlessly made between us. Perhaps I was really the guilty one, because I did not know you well”
― Sándor Márai, Embers

“„Cât am fost mică, în familia noastră tata era expertul absolut în alegerea pepenilor, numai el îi cumpăra. Știa să examineze vrejul, să apese la capete să nu fie moale, știa să bată cu degetul în ei și să descifreze cum sună și de cele mai multe ori îi nimerea, chiar erau de zahăr, cum spunea el. Dar apoi s-au schimbat pepenii, acum sunt toți mutanți, și ăia din magazin și ăia de pe marginea drumului, și nu se mai pricepe nimeni la ei.
Dacă nu poți să te pricepi la pepeni, cum poți să te pricepi la oameni?”
― Lavinia Braniște, Mă găsești când vrei

“The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn

“Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. Loving an animal, a horse, cat, or dog, was always a romantic tragedy. It meant loving something that would die before you. Like that movie with Ali McGraw. There was no future, just the affection of the present moment. You didn't expect a big payoff, someday.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition