It's an awful thing to miss someone who's still here.
Fredrik Backman
Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it's done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It's not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for.
The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.
Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.
She wonders how much space a person has left in her soul to change herself, once she gets older. What people does she still have to meet, what will they see in her, and what will they make her see in herself?
They construct words of forgiveness from the ruins of fighting words.
The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there's no negotiating with that.
Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.
Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss.
For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit." David asked what he meant by that, and Sune replied: "That most people don't do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.
Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Because life is more than the shoes your feet are in. More than the person you are. It's the togetherness. The parts of yourself in another. Memories and walls and cupboards and drawers with compartments for cutlery, so you know where everything is.
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.
I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.
Showing 196 to 210 of 1267 results
You must log in to post a comment.
There are no comments yet.