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“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“_ რა არის სიცოცხლე?
_ სიცოცხლე სევდა არის, ადამიანად ყოფნის ტკბილი სევდა.
_ სიკვდილი?
_ სიკვდილიც სევდა არის, ადამიანად არყოფნის სევდა.”
― Goderdzi Chokheli

“ძლიერს უფრო მეტად უჭირს ამ ქვეყნად. მიტომაც მუდამ დაღრენილნი დადიან ლომები, ვეფხვები და ავაზები, ხოლო თრითინები, თაგვები და ციყვები მუდამ მხიარულად დაცუნცულებენ.”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“ბრძენკაცი უნდა იყვეო და შლეგად მოაჩვენოო ადამიანებს თავი, გმირი უნდა იყვე და ჯაბანივით დადიოდე, ოსტატი უნდა იყვე და ხელმოცარულად მოგქონდეს თავი, რადგან არავის იმდენი მტერი არა ჰყავსო ქვეყნად, როგორც ბრძენკაცს, გმირსა და ოსტატს.”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“ოდითგანვე ასე მოგვდგამს ქართველებს, მუდამ ჩვენს სიმცირეს მივსტიროდით, რადგან მტერი აურაცხელი გვყავდა მუდამ, მაგრამ დიდკაცი თუ გამოგვერია, მას ისე დავკორტნით, როგორც დაკოდილ ძერას ყვავები.”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“-სიკვდილზე რას იტყვი. ქვებსა და ხეებს თუ აქვთ მისი განცდა?
– სიკვდილი,რომ გამოიგონა ღმეთმა,იფიქრა, მოდი გამოვცდიო და ჯერ ქვას არგუნა მისი განცდა. ქვებმა ისე განიცადეს, იმდენი იდარდეს,რომ დარდისგან სულ იფშვნებოდნენ, აღარ ივიწყებდნენ თავიანთი თანამოძმის სიკვდილს და ყველანი იფშვნებოდნენ. ღმერთმა იფიქრა, ამათთვის ეს განცდა არ შეიძლებაო, აარიდა ქვებს სიკვდილი და ახლა ხეს არგუნა. იმათაც ძლიერ განიცად…ეს, მთელმა ტყეებმა ტოტები ჩამოილეწეს და აღარ ივიწყებდნენ სიკვდილს. ხეებსაც აარიდა სიკვდილი და ახლა წყალს არგუნა. ვერც წყალმა გაუძლო, დაშრობა დაიწყო. შემდეგ ადგა ღმერთი და ადამიანებს არგუნა სიკვდილი. ადამიანმა იტირა, იტირა.. მერე კი დამარხა მკვდარი და ტირილით გამოიგლოვა კიდეც. ამის მერე ღმერთმა ადამიანს მიაკუთვნა სიკვდილის განცდა.”
― Goderdzi Chokheli, ადამიანთა სევდა

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
― Murakami, Haruki

“the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless”
― Mikhail Bulgakov

“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I understood then what courage is all about. It is loving someone else more than you love yourself.”
― Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

“Don’t be in a hurry to grow up. Hold on to being a boy as long as you can, because once you lose that magic, you’re always begging to find it again.”
― Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

“But why should you be interested in me?"
Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe