“I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of
Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.
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― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“I decided that if I was worth anything as a person, I ought to be able to let her be with what it was she had to be with then: not urge her to fight it if she was tired of fighting, not ply her with hope, not make her think about who might be upset or worried, not ask anything of her, nothing, just be alive with her while she was still alive.”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“I miss women,” he went on. “I miss that kind of intimacy. But I think whatever people do; they do in search of pleasure. Or trying to get rid of pain or fear, which is the same thing, basically. Everything, everything is really about that. Everything is about bringing your mind to a place where it’s at peace”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
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“Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“في نمط الكينونة, لا يكون الإيمان -في المقام الأول- مجرد إيمان بأفكار معينة وإن كان من الممكن أن يتضمن هذا أيضا, إنما الإيمان- في المقام الأول- هو توجه داخلي, موقف, ولعله من الأنسب أن يقال إن شخصا ما في حالة الإيمان, على أن يقال إنه يملك إيمانا,يمكن ان الشخص في حالة ايمان بنفسه وبالأخرين, والمتدين في حالة إيمان بالله, والله في العهد القديم هو بالدرجة الأولى نفي للأصنام للآلهة التي كان الناس يملكونها.
وإيماني بنفسي وبالأخرين وبالجنس البشري يتضمن ايضا نوعا من اليقين, ولكنه يقين اساسه تجربتي الذاتية, وليس خضوعي لسلطة تملي عليّ نمطا معينا من الإيمان. إنه يقين الحقيقة التي قد يستحيل إثباتها بأدلة عقلية ملزمة, ومع ذلك فهي الحقيقة التي أنا على يقين منها لأن ثمة أدلة عليها من تجربتي الذاتية.
إذا كنت على يقين من أن شخصا ما تتوافر فيه صفات التكامل الإنساني فإنني لا استطيع أن اقيم الدليل على أن تكامله يمكن ان يستمر لآخر يوم في حياته.
وحتى لو حدث, فليس ثمة ما يستبعد احتمال اختلال التكامل لو امتدت الحياة به, إن يقين يقوم على معرفتي بالشخص الآخر, وعلى تجربتي الشخصية في الحب والتكامل الإنساني, وهذا النوع من المعرفة لا استطيع التوصل اليه إلا بقدر ما استطيع تنحية ذاتيتي ورؤية شخصية الإنسان الآخر كما هي, واستجلاء بناء قواه الداخلية, رؤيته في تفرده كما في انسانيته الشاملة في الوقت نفسه.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“As long as you're dreaming, there's always a way out.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night
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