Jeanette Winterson – The passion

1. “I was happy but happy is an adult word. you don’t have to ask a child about happy, you see it. they are or they are not. adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. much easier to let it blow all over you.”

2. “soldiers and women. that’s how the world is. any other role is temporary. any other role is a gesture.”

3. “we are a philosophical people, conversant with the nature of greed and desire, holding hands with the Devil and God. we would not wish to let go of either. this living bridge is tempting to all and you may lose your soul or find it here.”

4. “you play, you win. you play, you lose. you play.”

5. “what you risk reveals what you value”

6. “hectic stupor. it manifests itself as a compulsion to be forever doing something, however meaningless. the body must move but the mind is blank.”

7. “I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. it’s huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. and every day it’s proven right it grows a little more monstrous. if the love was passion, the hate will be obsession.”

8. “she made him possible”

9. “i say i’m in love with her, what does that mean? it means i review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. it is as though i wrote in a foreign language that i am suddenly able to read. wordlessly she explains me to myself; like genius she is ignorant of what she does.”

10. “there is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”

11. “passion does not take disappointment well.”

12. “the hardship is a man made device, because man cannot exist without passion.”

13. “bridges join but they also separate”

14. “passion is not so much an emotion as a destiny”

15. “when the snow falls, you can almost believe the world is clean again. is every snowflake different? no one knows.”

16. “they say every snowflake is different. if that were true, how could the world go on? how could we ever get up off our knees? how could we ever recover from the wonder of it? by forgetting. we cannot keep in mind too many things. there is only the present and nothing to remember.”

17. “snow doesn’t look cold, it doesn’t look like as though it has any temperature at all. and when it falls and you catch those pieces of nothing in your hands, it seems so unlikely that simple multiplication can make such a difference.”

Contributie: Anka

Jonathan Safran Foer – Extrem de tare si incredibil de aproape

1. “Oh,  well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds and thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”

2. “It’s not a horrible world, but it’s filled with horrible people.”

3. “What if the water that came out of the shower was treated with a chemical that responded to a combination of thigs, like your heart-beat, and your body temperature, and your brain waves, so that your skin changed color according to your mood? If you were extremely excited your skin would turn green, and if you were angry you’d turn red obviously, and if you felt like shiitake you’d turn brown, and if you were blue you’d turn blue. Everyone could know what everyone else felt, and we could be more careful with each other, because you’d never want to tell a person whose skin was purple that you’re angry at her for being late, just like you would want to pat a pink person on the back and tell him congratulations.”

4. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting you from happiness.”

5. “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”

6. “You can’t love anything more than something you miss.”

7. “I wanted to know what he was thinking. Who did he miss? What was he sorry for?”

8. “And then a thought came into my brain that wasn’t like the other thoughts. It was closer to me, and louder. I didn’t know where it came from, or what it meant, or if I loved it or hated it. It opened up like a fist or a flower.”

Contributie: Anka

1. „ Oamenii sunt singurele animale care rosesc, rad, au religie, duc razboaie si se saruta cu buzele. Asa ca, intr-un fel, cu cat te saruti mai mult cu buzele, cu atat esti mai om.”

2. „ Vrea sa stie daca o iubesc, asta e tot ce vor oamenii unii de la altii, nu dragostea in sine, ci doar sa stie ca dragostea e acolo.”

3. „ Nu te poti apara de tristete fara sa te aperi de fericire.”

4. „E tragedia iubirii, cel mai mult iubesti lucrurile de care ti-e dor.”

5. „ Tot ce se naste trebuie sa moara, ceea ce inseamna ca vietile noastre sunt ca zgarie-norii. Fumul se ridica mai repede sau mai incet, dar toti zgarie-norii ard si toti suntem captivi inlauntrul lor.”

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Jose Saramago – Eseu despre orbire

1. „Pe toti dracii, orbirea nu se ia, Nici moartea nu se ia, dar murim cu totii.”

2. ‚Toti avem momente de slabiciune, noroc ca putem plange, plansul e de multe ori o salvare, sunt clipe cand am muri, daca n-am plange.”

3. „Orbirea nu e totuna cu moartea, Da, dar moartea e totuna cu orbirea,”

4. „[…] era patru dupa-amiaza, desi in realitate, ceasului putin ii pasa, merge de la unu la douasprezece, restul sunt ideile oamenilor.”

5. „[…] nu voia totusi sa isi trezeasca sotul si sa-i observe absenta la timp ca s-o intrebe Unde te duci, intrebare pe care probabil barbatii o pun cel mai des nevestelor lor, cealalta este Unde ai fost.”

6. „[…] evident, nu numai glasul sangelui n-are nevoie de ochi, dragostea care se zice ca e oarba, are si ea un cuvant de spus.”

7. „[…] e de necrezut cata puetere are forta animalica a sexului, orbeste mirosul, simtul cel mai delicat, unii teologi chiar afirma, desi nu chiar cu aceste cuvinte, ca pentru a trai rezonabil in infern, cel mai greu de suportat e mirosul de acolo.”

8. „Dar cand e necesar sa ucizi, se intreba mergand spre hol, si isi raspunse tot ea, Cand e deja mort ceea ce e inca viu.”

9. „Ochii, ochii propriu-zisi n-au nici o expresie, nici macar cand au fost smulsi, sunt doua bile inerte, pleoapele, genele si sprancenele trebuie sa se ocupe de diversele elocvente si retorici vizuale, insa faima le revine ochilor.”

10. „[…[ adevarul si greseala sunt numai doua moduri diferite de a intelege relatia noastra cu ceilalti, nu pe cea pe care o avem cu noi insine, in asta nu ne putem increde.”

11. „Asa sunt cuvintele, ascund multe, se unesc unele cu altele, dau impresia ca nu stiu unde vor sa mearga, dar deodata, din pricina a doua sau trei vorbe, sau patru care apar brusc, simple in ele insele, un pronume personal, un adverb, un verb, un adjectiv, si iata ca emotia urca irezistibila la suprafata pielii si a ochilor, straicand masura sentimentelor, uneori nu mai rezista nervii, au indurat multe, au indurat totul, parca purtau o armura, s-ar spune.”

12. „Orbii n-au nevoie de nume, eu sunt vocea pe care o am, restul n-are importanta.”

13. „Nu poti sa stii niciodata dinainte de ce sunt oamenii capabili, e nevoie sa astepti, sa lasi timpul sa lucreze, timpul e cel care porunceste, timpul e partenerul care joaca de cealalta parte a mesei, si are in mana toate cartile din pachet, noua ne revine sa inventam jocurile cu viata, a noastra,”.

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