Intermezzo Quotes

“Language doesn't fit onto reality like a toy fitting into a slot. Reality is actually one thing and language something else.”
― Sally Rooney

“Life itself, he thinks, every moment of life, is as precious and beautiful as any game of chess ever played, if only you know how to live.”
― Sally Rooney

“What loyalty had she purchased with her lifetime of good behavior and self-sacrifice? None, nothing.”
― Sally Rooney

“A woman in Bower Bank, Jamaica, had eight children. The father was in jail in the United States, no longer sending remittances.

Her fourteen-year-old daughter "get burn up from her face, breast, chest, down to her legs with boiling water February 2 1999. That night just because I never have any money earlier to cook, me go town and get a money, buy something to cook cause them never eat from morning. Me daughter bend down, to pick up something near the stove and bounce off the pot of boiling water pan herself. Me tek her to hospital and me never have the money fe register her. Me beg somebody the money and register her. Me owe the hospital $10,500 for the bill, a caan [can't] pay it. She's to go back for treatment because her hand caan stretch out or go up, but the hospital will not see her if I don't pay the bill.”
― William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

“Як вони оте роблять, цікавий я знати? Б'ють дзьобами в золото сонця? Грають на його проміннях, наче на струнах? Сіють пісню на дрібне сито і засівають нею поля?”
― Intermezzo, Kotsiubynsky Mykhailo

“Lijepim ljudima se otvara više vrata nego pametnima. Lijepi ljudi, iako ne istim putevima, mogu doći do stvari o kojima pametni ponekad mogu samo sanjati.”
― Viktoria Faust, Jackie - Intermezzo 4