“My Zora senses are tingling," I said.
Nathan looked at me blankly.
"Right, you don't know anything about Spiderman," I remembered.
"Spider who?" he asked.”
Source: The Spell Master
“L'amitié a des grandeurs inconnues de l'amour. Elle se fortifie dans les difficultés, alors que les contraintes massacrent l'amour. Elle résiste au temps qui laisse et désunit les couples. Elle a des élévations inconnues de l'amour.”
Source: So Long a Letter
“With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.”
Source: Commencement
“Freunde ergänzen einander, ergänzen heißt ganz machen, um das nötig zu haben, muß man beschädigt sein, aber wenn man es nötig hat, so kann man auch niemand brauchen, der auf dieselbe Art beschädigt ist, sondern jemand, der andere Schäden aufweist. Die Freunde füllen die Lücken, komplementär, sie holen auf, was einem fehlt, sie tun, was man versäumt hat, Verwandte tun das nicht, oder wenn, dann nur zufällig.”
Source: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
“Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps and weeping wounds of scrofula. The poorest of the market.
At Kate's feet, Drina. Her scarf and shirt were torn open.”
Source: Plain Kate
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NOTES
“You broke your other appointment, didn’t you?”
“I did not! I told you on the phone—these people canceled at the last minute—”
“Oh, Geo dear, come off it! You know, I sometimes think, about you, whenever you do something really sweet, you’re ashamed of it afterwords! You knew jolly well how badly I needed you tonight, so you broke that appointment. I could tell you were fibbing, the minute you opened your mouth! You and I can’t pull the wool over each other’s eyes. I found that out, long ago. Haven’t you—after all these years?”
“I certainly should have,” he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally accepted bit of nonsense it is that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you.”
Source: A single man
“Sie nahmen mich wahr und ließen mich sein, wie ich war. (Bei denen bleib ich.)”
Source: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
“Lindsey will have a light to guide her to wherever she’s going, a place even farther than America. It’s the only thing she needs now, the only thing Johnny can giver her: a light to lead her home”
“You left wildflowers”
Source: Between Two Fires
“If it doesn't cost you anything to give, it probably won't mean anything to receive; the best gifts carry a piece of the giver's heart.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.