“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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“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart.” -Stephen Lawhead, Merlin”
― quote from Chasing Merlin
“Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn’t control our nutrition—not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does.”
― T. Colin Campbell, quote from Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
“I see walking bombs on the street
Hearts not beating, but ticking”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening
“It has always been essential to keep women riveted on the details of submission so as to divert women from thinking about the nature of force—especially the sexual force that necessitates sexual submission. The mothers could not ward off the enthusiasm of sexual liberation—its energy, its hope, its bright promise of sexual equality—because they could not or would not tell what they knew about the nature and quality of male sexuality as they had experienced it, as practiced on them in marriage. They knew the simple logic of promiscuity, which the girls did not: that what one man could do, ten men could do ten times over. The girls did not understand that logic because the girls did not know fully what one man could do. And the mothers failed to convince also because the only life they offered was a repeat version of their own: and the girls were close enough to feel the inconsolable sadness and the dead tiredness of those lives, even if they did not know how or why mother had gotten the way she was.”
― Andrea Dworkin, quote from Right Wing Women
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