“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”
― The Sunset Limited
― The Sunset Limited
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That's where the misunderstanding starts: they don't have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don't intersect; and even in terms of quantity they are not comparable: one person remembers the other more than he is remembered; first because memory capacity varies among individuals (an explanation that each of them would at least find acceptable), but also (and this is more painful to admit) because they don't hold the same importance for each other. When Irena saw Josef at the airport, she remembered every detail of their long-ago adventure; Josef remembered nothing. From the very first moment their encounter was based on an unjust and revolting inequality.”
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“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”
― The Very Hungry Caterpillar
― The Very Hungry Caterpillar
“You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
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