Dani > Dani's Quotes

“If there was one thing that defined adolescence it was hysterical laughter. You never laughed like that again. In adolescence the brutal realisation that the world and life were completely absurd made you laugh until you couldn’t catch your breath, whereas in later life it would only result in a weary sigh.”
― Antoine Laurain, The Red Notebook

“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one we share.”
― Deborah Cameron, Verbal Hygiene

“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.”
― Deborah Cameron, Verbal Hygiene

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Bij mijn kamerdeur gaf ze me een kusje op mijn wang. 'Welterusten, schat. En dank je wel.'
'Waarvoor?'
'Voor dat ik je ken.”
― Hendrik Groen, Opgewekt naar de eindstreep: Het laatste geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 90 jaar

“You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?"
"Yes, he did."
"When did he say this?"
"When he left me."
"Did he say anything more?"
"He mentioned his name."
Holmes cast a swift glance of triumph at me.
"Oh, he mentioned his name, did he? That was imprudent. What was the name that he mentioned?"
“His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Le Chien des Baskerville

“In certi momenti gli occhi di una donna si riempiono di una luce assai più eloquente di un fiume di parole.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe