“Quan ja no hi eren, va tornar a posar l'esquena sobre la façana de l'església, va encendre's un cigarro nou i va recuperar un pensament antic: que no és possible passar d'alguna cosa al no-res, que tampoc ho és passar del no-res a alguna cosa i que, per tant, l'univers ha de ser un murmuri constant.”
Source: L'escuma
“It's nice to dream...Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform you dreams into reality.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“To those who believe that adventures are dangerous I say, Try routine: that kills your far more quickly.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“And anyway, some things could never be fixed, not properly anyway.”
Source: All That I Leave Behind: A powerful, heart-breaking story of family secrets
“But why should she not announce to the family that she was going to change, was in the process of changing? She could not. They would see it as a claim on their attention, their compassion. (...) (That was not how people changed; they didn't change themselves: you got changed by being made to live through something, and then you found yourselve changed.)”
Source: The Summer Before the Dark
“I lean against the kitchen sink, listening as the piano tells the one story that is every story: we are small, we are scared, we are brave. We love, we hurt, we fall apart, we change, we let go, we go on. We become unrecognizable. We stay more or less the same - small and scared. It goes forever. Stay as long as you can.”
Source: The Lover
“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already embodied if not completed.”
Source: The Labor Movement : Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences / (1921) [Leather Bound]
“The butterfly that shakes the dust from its wings before resuming its flight cares little for the remains of the chrysalis in which it once lived.”
Source: Cade la terra
“It's not like anything is going to change, but.
"It's not like nothing is going to change," Senjogahara said at the end.”
“Survival is a hard habit to break.”
Source: Starling House