Book: Normal people

One person really can change another.

People are much more comprehensible than it seems...

It's amazing what you can sometimes make decisions just because you like someone... and then it changes your whole life.

If people in mourning behave is meaningless, it is only because human life is meaningless, and grief only reveals this truth.

Yes, money is the substance that gives the world a reality.

He actually likes to take in the twists and turns of the plot. From the intellectual point of view, it seems frivolous to worry about who of fictional characters on whom to marry. But is the literature concerned with him. One of the teachers calls it "engaging mental contact with great art." In this formulation, it seemed almost sexy.

...I love you. It's not just words, true love. Her eyes again fill with tears, she closes them. Even the memory of this moment will forever be filled with a huge sense, and she knows it now, while everything is happening. She never believed that someone will love. And now begins a new life, this is the first moment of it, and even when many years pass, she will feel the same way: Yes, this was the beginning of my new life.

A few seconds they stood silent, he was hugging her breath tickled his ear. Most people live a lifetime, never having felt so close, thought Marianne.