"What I'm saying is that when we were that age, when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poem at all. But remember, someone like Christy? Christy had this great reputation for poetry, and we all looked up to her for it. Even you, Ruth, you didn't dare boss Christy around. All because we thought she was great at poetry. But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it. It's strange."
(Never let me go, Kazuo Ishiguro)

"من همیشه طرف گیرنده ام. اون‌قدرها هم خوشایند نیست، می‌دونی که."
(فرانی و زویی، جی. دی. سالینجر)

"احساس عجیبی داشتم، احساس عدم تعلق، احساس دردی ناشی از دلخوری. میخواستم به آنها بگویم: اینجا کتاب فروشی من است."
(شکسپیر و شرکا، جرمی مرسر)

"Neither you nor i nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic."
(Almond, Won-pyung Sohn)

دلم میخواد باشم ولی حضور نداشته باشم.

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

"It’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it."
(Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train)

"He much prefers to have his mental collapses in solitude, it’s less messy that way."

When a human strokes your skin
That is when you let them in
Let them in before they go
I would rather feel alive-
with a childlike soul