Hello there! A busy week calls for some quotes. I liked these quotes/passages from a few fiction books I recently read.
"There has to be a balance between whom we wish to be and who we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are."
HERO OF AGES
"A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do."
NORWEGIAN WOOD
"A job well done is a reward in its own right."
A MAN CALLED OVE
"Her friends couldn't see why she woke up every morning and voluntarily decided to share the whole day with him. He couldn't either. He built her a bookshelf and she filled it with books by people who wrote page after page about their feelings. Ove understood things he could see and touch. Wood and concrete. Glass and steel. Tools. Things one could figure out. He understood right angles and clear instruction manuals. Assembly models and drawings. Things one could draw on paper.
He was a man of black and white.
And she was color. All the color he had."
A MAN CALLED OVE
"My advice to you is very simple. First of all, if you are drawn so strongly to this Midori person, it is only natural for you to have fallen in love with her. It might go well, or it might not. But love is like that. When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity."
NORWEGIAN WOOD
His father's only remaining words were about engines. He could spend any amount of time talking about them. "Engines give you what you deserve," he used to explain. "If you treat them with respect they'll give you freedom; if you behave like an ass, they'll take it from you."
A MAN CALLED OVE
"Stop eating yourself up. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that. I know I sound like I'm preaching from the pulpit, but it's about time you learned to live like this. You try too hard to make life fit your way of doing things. If you don't want to spend time in an insane asylum, you have to open up a little more and let yourself go with life's natural flow. I'm just a powerless and imperfect woman, but still, there are times I think to myself how wonderful life can be! Believe me, it's true! So stop what you're doing this minute and get happy. Work at making yourself happy."
NORWEGIAN WOOD
Hope you had a peaceful weekend. Thanks for reading. Cheers!
