Spogulīt, spogulīt, saki man tā.

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

"Kur palikušas tīrās atmiņas? Gandrīz it visām piejaucas klāt iespaidi no citiem laikmetiem, klājoties tām pāri un piešķirot tām pavisam citu realitāti. Atmiņu nav, ir cita dzīve, ko vēlreiz izdzīvo cits cilvēks, kuru daļēji veido pašas atmiņas. Laika virzība nav pagriežama uz pretējo pusi, ja vien nedzīvo ar aizsietām acīm un kurlām ausīm."

B. VIANS "Sarkanā zāle"

“When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want?
Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?”

― Max Lucado

"Nē, Kranc, nekas tā nesmird pēc lopkautuves kā maģistrantu seminārs. Cilvēki sēd mazās auditorijās ap galdiem, rokas viņiem asiņo no komatiem. Viņi noveco, bet dzejnieku vecums paliek, kāds bijis, divdesmit trīs, divdesmit pieci, deviņpadsmit."
(L. Koens "Iemīļotā spēle")

most of the people use helvetica because it's there. it's like going to mcdonalds, so you don't have to think about food.

/no filmas Helvetica.

Evelyn: Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected.
Muriel: Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff.

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”

— Victor Frankl

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception /Rodney Dangerfield/

"Truth is relative. Pick one that works." /Sebastian Stark/

"Var pienākt tāds rīts, kad es pamostos un viņas seja nav pirmā, ko ieraugu. Vai slinka augusta pēcpusdiena, kad es vairs īsti nespēju atsaukt atmiņā, kur uz viņas labā pleca atradās vasaras raibumi. Varbūt kādā no tādām dienām es nespēšu klausīties krītošā sniega troksnī un sadzirdēt viņas soļus."

- Jodi Picoult "My sister's keeper"

"Dzīve ir īsa. Un ir jāprot aiziet. Jāprot aiziet no sliktas filmas. Jānosviež slikta grāmata. Jāaiziet no slikta cilvēka. To ir daudz. Jāpamet lietas, kas neiet. Pat no viduvējības ir jāiet prom. To ir daudz. Laiks ir dārgāks. Labāk pagulēt. Labāk paēst. Labāk paskatīties uz uguni, uz bērnu, uz sievieti, uz ūdeni."

/Mihails Žvaņeckis

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."


- Ernest Hemingway

" Dūmi sastāvēja no simtiem visdažādāko vienību, kuras mainījās ik minūti, pat ik sekundi, veidojot veselu smaržu gleznu, un to visu sauca vienā vārdā "dūmi"... "

Parfīms, Stāsts par kādu slepkavu

“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”
— Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones)

“In my next life I want to live backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then, Voila! You finish off as an orgasm! I rest my case.”

— Woody Allen