She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.
He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.
One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how itâs happened.
At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?
Soccer forces life to move on. Thereâs always a new match. A new season. Thereâs always a dream that everything can get better. Itâs a game of wonders.
One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
Just because you donât like peanut butter doesnât necessarily mean you canât like . . . peanuts.
KaĆŸdĂ© manĆŸelstvo mĂĄ svoje zlĂ© strĂĄnky, lebo kaĆŸdĂœ Älovek mĂĄ nejakĂș slabosĆ„. A kaĆŸdĂœ, kto s niekĂœm ĆŸije, sa s jeho slabosĆ„ou istĂœm spĂŽsobom nauÄĂ zaobchĂĄdzaĆ„. MĂŽĆŸe ju vnĂmaĆ„ naprĂklad ako nesmierne taĆŸkĂœ kus nĂĄbytku a nauÄiĆ„ sa upratovaĆ„ okolo neho. Aby sa nenaruĆĄila ilĂșzia. Samozrejme, je mu jasnĂ©, ĆŸe pod nĂĄbytkom sa hromadĂ ĆĄpina, no nauÄĂ sa ju odsĂșvaĆ„ tak Äaleko, aby ju nevideli hostia. Potom vĆĄak jednĂ©ho dĆa ktosi bez opĂœtania odsunie nĂĄbytok a vĆĄetko vyjde najavo. Ć pina aj ryhy. TrvalĂ© poĆĄkodenie parkiet. No a vtedy je uĆŸ neskoro.
A time like that comes for every man, when he choses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.
