All Those Things We Never Said

It’s funny how we always search for reasons not to love—fear of suffering, fear of abandonment—but the love of life, oh, how much you can take for granted until you realize that, one day, you’re going to lose all of it.

„Vidiš“, reče on sjedajući, „to je čudno, ali pronalazimo svakojake razloge ne bismo li spriječili sebe da volimo, zato što se plašimo da ćemo patiti, da ćemo jednog dana biti ostavljeni. Volimo, međutim, život, iako znamo da će nas on jednog dana napustiti.

„Pamćenje je neobičan umjetnik, mijenja boje života, briše ono što je nezanimljivo i čuva samo ono najljepše i najuzbudljivije.

Već sam ti rekao da prestaneš da se bojiš riječi. Važno je da koristimo prave riječi.

Women are fickle, you know. And men are idiots.

Some might say the most hurt you can cause is through cowardice.

Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

I gave up pouring my heart out to his personal assistant a long time ago. Talking to the man himself is damn near impossible. Always on a business trip or in a meeting. No way he’d make time for his daughter.

Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best—how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal? Do you have even the faintest notion of what life looks like when the person you’re with treats you like a stranger?

Deep down, Julia had always known that this artistic escape was a vain attempt to find clarity and comfort.