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“They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade”
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“A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.”
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“I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did”
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“About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.”
Source : Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books
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“I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.”
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“I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.”
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“I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible”
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“He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.”
Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.10, Macmillan
