Quotes

My favorite quotes from the books:

 

Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it. 

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Even though it will feel uncomfortable for a while, but according to the pastor, discomfort is good. In discomfort we are real.

The Discomfort of Evening by  Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

We find ourselves in loss and we are who we are – vulnerable beings, like stripped starling chicks that fall naked from their nests and hope they’ll be picked up again.

The Discomfort of Evening by  Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.

Circe by Madeline Miller

For she too has her little pains, and they wear her out, though she does not speak of them, or is not asked, and when they show themselves it tends to be when she's alone.

The Promise by Damon Galgut

He is haggard, he is pale. A handsome young man, brown eyes and brown hair, something in his face that will never be at ease. 

The Promise by Damon Galgut