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{EN} And The Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
1. “For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.” 2. „A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.” 3. „I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.” 4. „They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless…
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{EN} Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Recenzie Coraline 1. “No,” said the cat.”Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” 2. “It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave. When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.” 3. “The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.”
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{EN} The Fault in Our Stars
Recenzie Sub aceeași stea 1. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.” 2. “So of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him—inevitably. And that’s what I’d felt as he reached for me: I’d felt as though I were committing an act…
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{EN} Someday, Someday, Maybe
1. “There wasn’t any one day where it came to me. My mother died and I started pretending it didn’t happen to me, started imagining what it would be like to have someone else’s life story, and pretending became a relief. It wasn’t a conscious decision. Moving to New York was a decision, but wanting to be an actor was always more of a given.” 2. ‘I can walk at a leisurely pace down Fifth Avenue and imagine that someday, maybe, I’ll go into one of these stores instead of just walking past them looking hungrily into their windows, that someday, maybe, I’ll be carrying a real purse and wearing…