“But for someone like me, who moved into an entirely different world when still quite young, it’s as if a deep gap divides my past and my present.”
― quote from A True Novel
“Time flew over me, its black wings spread.”
― quote from A True Novel
“I believe that a girl begins life as a doll her mother can dress up as she pleases, a mirror where her mother's fancies are reflected; but as she grows older, her own nature begins to show.”
― quote from A True Novel
“She's still quite fit at ninety, fit enough to chew her food with her own teeth. Apparently she grew up in a house without a bar of soap, let alone tooth powder. Her family didn't have electricity until she started elementary school, and she'd never seen a train until the tracks of the Koumi line were laid in Saku. It's exactly as if she were born in the Edo period. These days, you only have to drive for five minutes to find a sparkling clean convenience store, with bright lights above shelves stocked with everything you could possibly need. Land that used to be fields of mulberry bushes is now crisscrossed by smooth, wide roads lined with video rental stores and fast food restaurants.
I would say O-Hatsu has seen more changes in her lifetime than I have. After all, she lived for most of the century when this country was changing faster than it ever had before. Even so, I have a feeling that the inside of her head has remained much the same as when she was a girl. By "the inside of her head" I mean the way she sees the world around her—the language she uses to make sense of it. In my case, the very way I looked at the world and the words I used to understand it had altogether changed.”
― quote from A True Novel
“IN MICHIGAN IT seemed as if spring would never come; then when it did, all too soon it was summer. One day I realized the cold was loosening its grip, and then overnight, the weather turned hot, with the sun whitening the concrete streets. As if to reward themselves for having endured such a long, harsh winter, everyone walked around wearing as little as they could get away with.”
― quote from A True Novel
“Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.”
― quote from A True Novel
“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, quote from Who Fears Death
“I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.”
― Howard Fast, quote from The Immigrants
“Jer, put do najintimnijeg dela našeg bića znači dugo putovanje kroz druge ljude i svetove. Tako sam se vratio ocu. Ali, kao što obično biva, tada je već bilo prekasno. Da sam onda znao da ga poslednji put vidim krepkog, da sam slutio kako ću ga dvadeset pet godina kasnije zateći pretvorenog u prljavu hrpu kostiju i iznutrica u raspadanju, kako me tužno gleda iz dubine tih očiju koje maltene nisu više pripadale ovom svetu, tada bih pokušao da razumem tog grubog, ali dobrog, snažnog, ali naivnog, naprasitog, ali čestitog čoveka. Izgleda, uvek kasno shvatamo svoje najbliže. A kada počnemo da stičemo izvesnu umešnost življenja, već dođe vreme da mremo. Što je najgore, već su pomrli oni na koje bismo najradije primenili stečenu veštinu.”
― Ernesto Sabato, quote from On Heroes and Tombs
“If your heart is racing, slow your breathing. Don't ignore your body just because your mind is scared. Your mind is a tool that can bring your body peace.”
― Hannah Hart, quote from Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Slaughterhouse-five: The Children's Crusade, A Duty-dance with Death
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