Quotes from book

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“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”

“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

“A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.”

“He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.”

“I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.”

“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”

“Wherever there's hope there's a trial.”

“She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.”

“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.”

“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”

“Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!”

“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”

“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”

“Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.”

“Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.”

“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”

“At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.”

“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”