Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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“I have had a troublesome relationship with time. The past I cannot trust because it could be tainted by my memory. The future is hypothetical and should be treated with caution. The present—what is the present but a constant test: in this muddled in-between one struggles to understand what about oneself has to be changed, what accepted, what preserved. ”
Sayfa 5 - Penguin Books
“I wished, too, that life could be reset, but reset from when? From each point I could go to an earlier point: warning signs neglected, mistakes aggregated, but it was useless to do so, as I often ended up with the violent wish that I had never been born.”
Sayfa 6 - Penguin Books
“I wished then and I wish now that I had never formed an attachment to anyone in the world either. I would be all kindness. I would not have done anything ruinous. I would never have to ask that question—when will I ever be good enough for you?—because by abolishing you, the opposite of I, I could erase that troublesome I from my narrative, too.”
Sayfa 33 - Penguin Books
“There is this emptiness in me. All the things in the world are not enough to drown out the voice of this emptiness that says: you are nothing.”
Sayfa 18 - Penguin Books
“I would have liked to be called a dreamer had I known how to dream.”
Sayfa 13 - Penguin Books
“I have been asked throughout my life: What are you hiding? I don’t know what I am hiding, and the more I try to deny it, the less trustworthy people find me.”
Sayfa 7 - Penguin Books
“Some people are commonplace, others are not. A day spent with the latter leaves enough memory, more than years spent with the former. As an ordinary person, I count it as my luck to have spent a year with you.”
Sayfa 28 - Penguin Books