424 quotes found
“The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.”
“All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.”
“A man walks fast along the forecourt of the station towards a gate, moving towards a train that's about to leave. I get shivery all over as I watch the back of his head, which is about Yuan's heigh...”
“I remember watching those balloons as a little boy, each fall, wondering if someday I, too, would be nothing but a balloon in the sky, soaring towards the sun until I begin to fall slowly back to e...”
“I didn't look back. Sometimes, not looking back is the only mercy the world has left to show.”
“An Indians wealth Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save.”
“Sometimes when a star collapses, it becomes a fiery supernova, but other times the core density is so great that it quietly consumes itself, forming a black hole, its gravitational pull so terrible...”
“Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.”
“I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.”
“The feeling doesnt always match the loss. Sometimes the bigger ones are easier to take, like ocean waves. Smaller, human losses, the ones that carry a sense of fault, a choice, a wrong turn they h...”
“You know that old clich about how millions of deaths being a statistic, while the loss of just one life is a tragedy? If that's true, what is it when you lose something that never even had a chance...”
“How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him aware of his own smallness in the world, his insignificance in the face o...”
“I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.”
“You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.”
“He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.”
“I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.”
“When all you have is the memory of a thing, all you can think about is how the thing is gone.”
“And in that vastness, it felt like every memory existed only to disappear one day.”
“Once you experience a major loss and survive, everything else after that you lose seems petty and doesn't affect you much.”
“Your image has receded till it is like the thinnest shadow of the old moon... a thin silver edge appeared, and now you hang like a sickle over my life.”
