Quotes
From The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon:
". . . nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds (21)."
"One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it (35)."
". . . we exist as long as someone remembers us (172)."
". . . the moment you stop to think about whether or not you love someone, you've already stopped loving them forever (176)."
". . . a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are (177)."
". . . nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it (240)."
"Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see (294)."
"Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to (371)."
"Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind (428)."
". . . a story is a letter the author write to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise (444)."
". . . a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us. . . when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind (484)."
from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson:
"There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them (39)."
"Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time (91)."
". . . there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect (91)."
"Strange are the uses of adversity. . . you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience (95)."
". . . it is godlike to love the being of someone (136)."
"Sinners are not dishonorable people. . . but those who are dishonorable never really repent and never really reform (156)."
"We fly forgotten as a dream. . . and our dreams are forgotten long before we are (176)."
". . . the times change, and the same words that carry a good many people into the howling wilderness in one generation are irksome or meaningless in the next (176)."
". . . nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds (21)."
"One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it (35)."
". . . we exist as long as someone remembers us (172)."
". . . the moment you stop to think about whether or not you love someone, you've already stopped loving them forever (176)."
". . . a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are (177)."
". . . nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it (240)."
"Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see (294)."
"Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to (371)."
"Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind (428)."
". . . a story is a letter the author write to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise (444)."
". . . a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us. . . when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind (484)."
from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson:
"There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them (39)."
"Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time (91)."
". . . there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect (91)."
"Strange are the uses of adversity. . . you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience (95)."
". . . it is godlike to love the being of someone (136)."
"Sinners are not dishonorable people. . . but those who are dishonorable never really repent and never really reform (156)."
"We fly forgotten as a dream. . . and our dreams are forgotten long before we are (176)."
". . . the times change, and the same words that carry a good many people into the howling wilderness in one generation are irksome or meaningless in the next (176)."
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