Das Leben danach, Bernard Jakoby

Wenn du mit jemandem einen Streit hast, schliesse Frieden und vergib ihm sofort. Er mag ein Idiot sein, aber das ist sein Fehler, und nicht deiner.
~ p?

Narziss und Goldmund, Hermann Hesse

In dieser Traumwelt lebte er mehr als in der wirklichen Welt: Schulsaal, Klosterhof,… war nur Oberfläche, nur eine dünne Haut über der traumgefüllten, ünerwirklichen Bilderwelt. Ein nichts war genug, um in diese dünne Haut ein Loch zu stossen, und hinter der friedlichen dürren Wirklichkeit die tosenden Abgründe, Ströme und Milchstrassen jener Seelenbilderwelt zu entfachen.
~ p65

Ja, ohne Zweifel würde auch dieser Schmerz, auch diese bittere Not alt und müde werden, auch sie würde er vergessen. Nichts hatte Bestand, auch nicht das Leid.
~p239

Dürre Jahre, Helene Flöss

Sie ist kräftig. Und zäh. Und gesund. Nur die Kraft zum Hungern fehlt.
~p41

Rule Of The Bone, Russell Banks

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most..
~p147

Actually I dont know if it ever works out unless you are standing in the middle of the street and dont see the ten-ton truck coming and this good guy pushes you out of the way and says its for your own good.
~p169

They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded.
~p190

White Oleander, Janet Fitch

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told small children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.
~p388

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
~p428

The phoenix must burn to emerge.
~p457

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.
~p384