Significant quotes

If I'm not the love of your life, I'll be the greatest loss instead

Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

the right one does not stand in your way they make space for you to step forward

From a distance, most things look beautiful.

you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay

One travels to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does.

It seems as if, year after year, the world becomes a more difficult place to live.

why is it that when the story ends we begin to feel all of it

On dit que l'amour est aveugle mais avec toi, qui sait, la cécité est peut-être une façon de voir...

This is what's unrealistic. It's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working year after year at a job he can't stand. Coming home to a place he can't stand, to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things. And you know what the worst part of it is? Our whole existence here is based on this great premise that we're special. They we're superior to the whole thing. But we're not. We're just like everyone else! We bought into the same, ridiculous delusion. That we have to resign from life and settle down the moment we have children. And we've been punishing each other for it.

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere

There is something irrational about reading. Before you read a book, you can know immediately whether or not you are going to like it, just as with people, you can tell just from looking at them whether or not you’ll be their friend. You smell it, you sniff it, you wonder whether it’s worth spending time in its company. The pages of a book have an invisible alchemy that imprints itself on our brain. A book is a living creature.

Il y a dans la lecture quelque chose qui relève de l'irrationnel. Avant d'avoir lu, on devine tout de suite si on va aimer ou pas. On hume, on flaire le livre, on se demande si ça vaut la peine de passer du temps en sa compagnie. C'est l'alchimie invisible des signes tracés sur une feuille qui s'impriment dans notre cerveau. Un livre, c'est un être vivant.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.