“And sometimes we hold on with both hands to things we really want to release.
This is a hard thing to admit. How do we know what to keep, and what is just an old idea we had about ourselves?”
Source: Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
“He didn't suffer from hunger - he suffered only from a breach in his routine. He was uneasy.”
Source: The Human Factor
“We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change like that. You must embrace it and be stronger for it.”
Source: The Hive and the Honey: Stories
“So I guess," he says, "some things change and stay the same.”
Source: Happy Place
“I find the world changed when it snows. Sometimes I wonder if it's the closest thing to magic I shall ever experience.”
Source: Upon a Frosted Star
“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