“We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“Everyone,” she continues, looking around at all of us, “has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can’t believe that there’s something else at the end of it. Something that isn’t just more pain. But there’s always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it’s there.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“Books light the fire—whether it’s a book that’s already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“The mind plays tricks on itself in order to stay in one piece.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“It's funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“... if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“the rest of life—that imperfect thing—waiting.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“He was like a long beaker in chemistry class, and the top was always bubbling over because some interesting process was taking place inside”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“I might have things to look forward to again, things I can’t even imagine yet.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“to find out what another human being feels, a person who isn't you; to get a look under the hood, so to speak. A deep look inside. That's what writing is supposed to do.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything,” I say in a burst. “But you’re supposed to act like it’s not.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“- O voce. Asta e tot ce primim.
Nimeni habar n-are ce vrea să spună, dar ea pare perfect mulţumită să ne lase în continuare nedumeriţi şi aşteaptă.
- Ăă, poftim? spune Marc.
- Fiecare avem o singură voce, spune doamna Quenell, iar lumea e incredibil de zgomotoasă. Uneori cred că cei tăcuţi...
Face semn din cap spre băiatul grosolan.
- ...şi-au dat seama că cea mai bună modalitate de-a atrage atenţia celorlalţi e să nu strigi, ci să şopteşti. Ceea ce îi face pe toţi să asculte puţin mai atent.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“But it’s never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don’t think. It’s also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire—whether it’s a book that’s already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“Belzhar este singurul mod în care fiecare dintre noi poate avea ceea ce îşi doreşte. Singurul mod în care putem obţine din nou lucrul pe care l-am pierdut.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“Toată lumea, continuă ea, privind în jur spre noi, are ceva de spus. Dar nu toată lumea poate suporta să o spună. Treaba voastră e să găsiţi o modalitate.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“But you can’t say that what you learn in English class doesn’t matter. That great writing doesn’t make a difference. I’m”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
“Ce se întâmplă în Belzhar, orice ar fi, nu lasă nicio urmă în lumea reală. Nicio umbră, niciun fel de reziduu.”
― Meg Wolitzer, quote from Belzhar
Meg Wolitzer
Born place: in Long Island, New York, The United States
Born date May 28, 1959
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“You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the knowledge of that something goes,you can feel it slip from you like a fish through the net.”
― Nikki Gemmell, quote from The Bride Stripped Bare
“Anybody is a damn fool if he actually seeks to be President,” he told friends. “You give up four of the very best years of your life. Lord knows it’s a sacrifice. Some people think there is a lot of power and glory attached to the job. On the contrary the very workings of a democratic system see to it that the job has very little power.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is a family resemblance.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
“But the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent - however irritating it may be when taken to extremes - is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion. A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.”
― Tony Judt, quote from Ill Fares the Land
“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― John Piper, quote from God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
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