Here Is Where We Meet Quotes

“I was scared of one thing after another. I still am.
Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can’t be both.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“If you have to cry, he said, and sometimes you can’t help it, if you have to cry, cry afterwards, never during! Remember this. Unless you’re with those who love you, only those who love you, and in that case you’re already lucky, for there are never many who love you — if you’re with them, you can cry during. Otherwise you cry afterwards”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A fiction

“So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A fiction

“All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A fiction

“Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to look. Sense was only to be found in secrets.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“When I was a child her sureness enraged me (regardless of the argument involved). It was a sureness that revealed - at least to my eyes - how, behind the bravado, she was vulnerable and hesitent, whereas I wanted her to be invincible. Consequently, I would contradict whatever it was she was being so certain about, in the hope we might discover something else, which we could question together with a shared confidence. Yet what happened, in fact, was that my counterattacks, made her more frail than she usually was, and the two of us would be drawn, helpless, into a malestrom of perdition and lamentation, silently crying out for an angel to come and save us. On no such occasion did an angel come.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A fiction

“Most people, she said, can't stand the truth. It's too bad but there it is, most people can't stand it.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“I remember having the same sensation in Gordon Avenue. The two moments, instead of being separated by decades, belong to the same hour of the same season. I wipe and close the knife.
A kind of vertigo overcomes me. Words make no more sense. Everything is a continuum.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“The number of lives that enter our own is incalculable.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“Everything in life, is a question of drawing a line, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You can't draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“Po motinų mirties laikas dažnai padvigubina arba padidina greitį.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“Į mūsų gyvenimą įeina tiek kitų gyvenimų, kad jų nesuskaičiuosi.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

“You put something down and you don't know immediately what it is. It has always been like that. ...All you have to know is whether you're lying or whether you're telling the truth, you can't afford to make a mistake about that distinction any longer.”
― John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths