Savanah Hendershott > Savanah's Quotes

“Memories often mingled with written stories and dreams, and in time even the clearest ones faded, like watercolours in a glass of water.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“As if he was looking forward to death. It happened to all dying creatures, human beings and animals.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“At the sight of those remains, she sensed that life is just a long succession of periods of waiting - sometimes so short you're not even aware of them, sometimes so long they seem endless. But with or without patience they all have an end.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“A clap of thunder as loud as cannonade gave the signal for the start of proceedings and rain poured down furiously on the thirsty fields, which absorbed it in silence, exhaling a damp aura of burnt earth.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“But not once, even for a second, had the idea of suicide crossed her mind, for she sensed that life is stronger than everything else. Life doesn't belong to us, it passes through us.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“Anna, in her lack of knowledge, sensed that all the creatures on this planet, from snails to swallows, and including human beings, must live. That is our mission; it has been written in our flesh. We must go on, without looking back, for the energy that pervades us is beyond our control, and even when despairing, maimed or blind, we continue to eat, sleep and swim, struggle against the whirlpool that sucks us down.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“How wonderful it would be to lose your bones, turn your flesh into transparent jelly and be carried along by the current like a jellyfish.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“Fragments of memory rose out of forgetfulness like broke pieces of glass, reassembling themselves into a prism of images.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“In the end, what's important is not how long your life is, but how you lived it. If you live it well - to the full - a short life is just as good as a long one.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“There was so much talk about love in her mother's books. Now she understood what it was. To know what it was, you had to lose it. Love was losing someone.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna

“The dead are our property, in a way. We must take care of them.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“I think it's enough if the dead person can be forgiven.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“Worrying oneself over the dead - was in most cases a mistake, not unlike berating them? The dead did not press moral considerations upon the living.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“She died because of herself. If you say it was you who made her die, then it was I even more. If I have to blame anyone, it should be myself. But it only makes her death seem dirty, when we start feeling responsible and having regrets. Regrets and second thoughts only make the burden heavier for the one who has died.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“It's the good things that attract the villains.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

“Summer storms in the dessert are violent things, and clean, they leave you feeling like you have cried.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Pay attention to your dreams: when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's kind of jet lag of the consciousness.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Oh lord, the terror of beginnings.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Not everything stays with you all your life.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one really gets the chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact way they wish for it to be altered.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“She was his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Good things don't get lost.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Well, here we are trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Jewels if actual experience to be taken home and gloated over.”
― Matthew Stokoe, Cows

“Was there something you could do that would make you different than you were?”
― Matthew Stokoe, Cows

“Dog yelped with joy and gave his thanks to the Dog God that there was still something left to love.”
― Matthew Stokoe, Cows

“You aren't the same as your memories.”
― Matthew Stokoe, Cows

“If meaning is what you need, you'll have ample opportunity to search for it.”
― Matthew Stokoe, Cows

“When a man is truly free, he is capable of anything that serves him.”
― Matthew Stokoe, Cows