quote glossary, l-z

some of my favorite quotes

life makes you pay...everybody pays something.
—pachinko, min jin lee

neither had realized the loneliness each had lived with for such a long time until the loneliness was interrupted by genuine affection.
—pachinko, min jin lee

a fragment for my friend—
if your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
silent, my starship suspended in night.
—station eleven, emily st. john mandel

you have to hold out to see how your life unfolds, because it is most likely beyond what you can imagine. it is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do.
—know my name, chanel miller

we force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her.
—know my name, chanel miller

if i said i was madly in love with you you'd know i was lying.
—gone with the wind, margaret mitchell

sometimes i think i’ve got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
—norwegian wood, haruki murakami

once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. you won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. but one thing is certain. when you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. that’s what this storm's all about.
—kafka on the shore, haruki murakami

that’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
—1Q84, haruki murakami

and what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?
—bluets, maggie nelson