Book: Restless

The funny thing is forgiveness. You can be angry with someone for many years and then realize that your feelings have changed, that your usual way of thinking has slipped away until you notice it yourself.

All this time he was waiting for his real life to begin: when Roland's friends would take him into their circle and the group would become famous. When he finds his mother. Then everything will change. But life did not wait for him, it went on - in the discharge of orange juice on the tongue or in bilingual dreams, in the faces of students when they understood a new word, in the haze of the candles on the cake when he blew them out. In the rush, twist and crunch of the perfect melody.

We all tell ourselves something to live from day to day.

You can do everything right, but still feel wrong.

… Under the fog, sooner or later, transparent glass will appear.

People don't like to go outside in the rain, although what's wrong with them? Allergy to life, or what?

The mother should break into a cake for the sake of the children, and Leon can be called yi ba [dad] just because he watches TV with you several days a week. If he bought you a cheap toy, Vivian cooed, "How caring," and when he took you to the park, neighbors complimented him that he was such a good daddy. But no one called me a good mommy when I did all this.

It is useful for a child to experience something new, it is useful to learn to be brave and independent.

How could you think that money can be won for free? ... Nothing happens for free.

You can't please everyone. But he wanted - more than anything else - to at least think better of himself.

Age softens people.

... Children of any race - white, black, purple, green - find it difficult to find their place. As well as fat and those whose parents have little money.
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Psychological problems are essentially colorblind.

It happens that a person carries a foreign body in himself and is unaware of it. Monstrous twin. Double in the form of a ball of wool. How much can grow inside Daniel, inside every person. He carried his mom and Leon, Michael and Vivian, the city. Images shrunk to a hair, trimming a nail and one out of place tooth. Collection of secret tumors.

... We can't ruin our lives just to make them [parents] happy.