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I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
samedi 30 juillet 2016
Polaris et autres nouvelles - H.P. Lovecraft
La Quête d'Iranon - H.P. Lovecraft
Tokyo Zodiac Murders - Soji Shimada
-Mitarai."
Il était maintenant près de la fenêtre, silencieux."
"Mitarai.
-......
-Allez, quoi."
Il consentit finalement à ouvrir la bouche:"Je sais ce que tu veux dire. Mais ce n'est pas moi qui suis bizarre, ce sont les autres, tellement que je n'arrive pas à comprendre comment ils font. Même quand j'ai une vie normale, un vie de tous les jours, j'ai quand même l'impression d'être un martien. Les gens sont tellement différents de moi, ça me donne le vertige."
Je me demandai alors si ce n'était pas là l'origine de ses dépressions."
"Les Anglais actuels vivent dans des maisons qui sont presque les mêmes que celles de l'époque de Sherlock Holmes, avec presque le même mobilier, Au Japon, tout a évolué extrêmement vite depuis Meiji, si bien qu'aucun style ne peut être étiqueté "traditionnel"."
"Notre interlocutrice sourit, et je pus enfin voir son visage correctement pour la première fois. Je n'oublierai jamais ce sourire; c'était la première fois que je voyais une femme de cinquante ans sourire de la sorte: un sourire un peu gêné et en même temps très pur et vrai. Je crus d'abord qu'il s'agissait d'un charme adulte, puis revins sur mon erreur: c'était le charme de l'enfance."
Tokyo Zodiac Murders - Soji Shimada
samedi 23 juillet 2016
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
« When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each
additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. My life is like a memento mori
painting from European art : there is always a grinning skull at my side
to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull. I look at it
and I say, ‘You’ve got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don’t
believe in death. Move on !’ The skull snickers and moves even closer, but
that doesn’t surprise me. The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t
biological necessity – it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in
love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life
leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and
gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. »
« I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal
slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion
merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture
it in your head if you want to feel it. »
« I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces.
Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them
both. »
« It is true that those we meet can change us,
sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our
names. Witness Simon who is called Peter, Matthew also known as Levi, Nathaniel
who is Bartholomew, Judas, not Iscariot, who took the name Thaddeus, Simeon who
went by Niger, Saul who became Paul. »
« Repetition is important in the training not only of
animals but also of humans. »
« And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack
with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which
scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. »
« It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers
and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith.
Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them – and then they
leap. »
« To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to
choosing immobility as a means of transportation. »
« All living things contain a measure of madness that
moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving ;
it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would
survive. »
« If thirst can be so taxing that even God Incarnate
complains about it, imagine the effect on a regular human. It was enough to
make me go raving mad. I have never known a worse physical hell than this
putrid taste and pasty feeling in the mouth, this unbearable pressure at the
back of the throat, this sensation that my blood was turning to a thick syrup
that barely flowed. Truly, by comparison, a tiger was nothing. »
« It seems orange – such a nice Hindu colour – is the
colour of survival because the whole inside of the boat and the tarpaulin and
the life jackets and the lifebuoy and the oars and most every other significant
object aboard was orange. Even the plastic, beadless whistles were orange. »
« How true it is that necessity is the mother of
invention, how very true. »
« I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true
opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how
well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. »
« Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived
because I forgot even the very notion of time. »
« Something in me died then that has never come back to
life. »
« Don’t you bully me with your politeness ! Love
is hard to believe, as any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God
is hard to believe, as any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe ? »
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
mardi 12 juillet 2016
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outisde, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
lundi 6 juin 2016
mardi 24 mai 2016
samedi 26 mars 2016
God Help the Child - Toni Morrison
"Black sells. It's the hottest commodity in the civilized world. White girls, even brown girls have to strip naked to get that kind of attention."
"Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget."
"Every girl I know introduces her boyfriend as a lawyer or artist or club owner or broker or whatever. The job, not the guy, is what the girlfriend adores."
"As a teacher I thought I was well read although in college, as an education major, I was not required to read any literature. Until I was in prison I'd never read The Odyssey or Jane Austen. None of it taught me much, but concentating on escapes, deceits, and who would marry whom was a welcome distraction."
"I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get. Quiet makes some folks fidget or feel too lonely. After fifteen years of noise I was hungry for silence more than food."
"When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it. Now I think of it, that black girl did do me a favor. Not the foolish one she had in mind, not the money she offered, but the gift that neither of us planned: the relase of tears unshed for fifteen years. No more bottling up, No more filth. Now I am clean and able."
"The reason for this tracking was not love, she knew; it was more hurt than anger that made her drive into unknown territory to locate the one person she once trusted, who made her feel safe, colonized somehow. Without him the world was more than confusing - shallow, cold, deliberately hostile."
"'Why is her skin so black?'
'For the same reason yours is so white.'"
"Just because he had two college degrees he thaught he could tell everybody what to do. They rolled their eyes at his arrogance."
"Simply dumbstruck by her beauty Booker stared open-mouthed at a young blue-black woman standing at the curb laughing. He clothes were white, her hair like a million black butterflies asleep on her head."
"Booker had no words to describe his feelings. What he did know was that the rain-soaked air smelled like lilac when he played while remembering her."
"A child. New life. Immune to evil or illness, protected from kidnap, beatings, rape, racism, insult, hurt, self-loathing, abandonment. Error-free. All goodness. Minus wrath. So they believe."
"Listen to me. You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how is works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child."
God Help the Child - Toni Morrison
dimanche 20 mars 2016
Runaway - Alice Munro
"He thought families were like a poison in your blood."
CHANCE
"Her professors were delighted with her - they were grateful these days for anybody who took up ancient languages, and particularly for someone so gifted - but they were worried, as well. The problem was that she was a girl."
"Be available, be friendly (especially if you are not popular) - that was what you learned in a small town and also in a girls' dormitory. Be accommodating to anybody who wants to suck you dry, even if they know nothing about who you are."
"Every few pages she seemed to have had an orgy of underlining."
"It often happened when somebody really valuable got into bad trouble, they were changed into a constellation."
"The thing that was your bright pleasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember. That is what happens. And even if it's not put away, even if you make your living from it, every day? Juliet thinks of the older teachers at the school, how little most of them care for whatever it is that they teach. Take Juanita, who chose Spanish because it goes with her Christian name (she is Irish) and who wants to speak it well, to use it in her travels. You cannot say that Spanish is her treasure. Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you."
SILENCE
"Without exactly meaning to, she lost contact with most of her friends. It was no wonder. She lived now a life as different as possible from the life of the public, vivacious, concerned, endlessly well-informed woman that she had been. She lived amongst books, reading through most of her waking hours and being compelled to deepen, to alter, whatever premise she had started with. She often missed the world news for a week at a time."
PASSION
"She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't stop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever."
TRESPASSES
"The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities - see the humanity - in everybody you met. To be aware. If he has anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware."
"Her isolation at school was based on knowledge and experience, which, as she half knew, coul look like innocence and priggishness. The things that were wicked mysteries to others were not so to her and she did not know how to pretend about them. And that was what separated her, just as much as knowing how to pronounce L'Anse aux Meadows and having read The Lord of the Rings."
TRICKS
"Foreigners talked differently, leaving a bit of space around the words, the way actors do."
"Twins are often the reason for mix-ups and disasters in Shakespeare. A means to an end, those tricks are supposed to be."
Runaway - Alice Munro
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