When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help...
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Joss Whedon
Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.
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Paulo Coelho
The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue — therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.
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Eraldo Banovac
I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To matter.
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Suzy Kassem
I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By Per Petterson
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
But that's life. That's what you learn from when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.
All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in...
You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.
