A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother,...

Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being...

(…) a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

(…) assim como é preciso evitar uma sobrecarga de ornamentações na arquitetura, nas artes discursivas é preciso evitar sobretudo os floreios retóricos desnecessários, todas as amplificações inúteis e, acima de tudo, o que há de...

The four most expensive word in the English language are ‘This time it’s different.

Kalian ingin menghentikan kriminalitas tetapi tidak tahu apa-apa tentang dunia kriminal? Itu naïf namanya.

I am naïve and I have fucked up but I tell you something else. I believe in change. I don’t mind getting my hands dirty because my hands are dirty already. I don’t mind giving...

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Padauža išsyk atkreipė ginklą į mane. Vargšelis visas tirtėjo, prakaitas liejosi kaip iš kibiro, todėl labai jau išmintingai nutariau, kad pistoletas neužtaisytas ir man tik reikia jį atimti. Pirmoji kulka pataikė į pilvą ir ištaškė...

There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And...

For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.

I love you madly, forever.

Complicated explanations rarely come from true understanding. Simple explanations either come from naivety or true understanding. Learning to tell the difference amplifies outcomes.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don’t know where I got that from. Seems silly now.