"The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear."

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Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage

Bernhard Schlink

#Events Quotes #Alive Quotes #Layers Quotes

“You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.”
“It is good to dream! After I dream, I envision, and after I envision, I create!”
“I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.”
“A mistake is something that you did thinking it was right but it was wrong. A sin is something that you know is wrong.”
“The first and most important rule of gun-running is, never get shot with your own merchandise.”
“There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.”

Source : Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Of Fire and Night”, p.538, Simon and Schuster
“Turn your habit into a conscious decision.”
“I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination.”

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