Am citit "The Fault in Our Stars" si "Looking for Alaska" in engleza. Le-am cumparat datorita agitatiei din jurul acestui autor (mnah, m-a prins si pe mine valul) dar chiar mi-a placut TFIOS; e mult mai "muncita". Cealalta i-ar fi placut mai mult adolescentei de 14 ani din mine. Oricum, sunt carti din categoria "quotable"; mi-au placut in mod special aceste doua paragrafe:
"There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. [...] There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." (The Fault in Our Stars) -- completand citatul deja postat de Bianca :)
"Rābi'a al-'Adawiyya, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, «I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise, so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.»" (Looking for Alaska)
o sa mi-o achizitionez si eu in limba romana! e mult prea laudata! imi place!
RăspundețiȘtergereAm citit "The Fault in Our Stars" si "Looking for Alaska" in engleza. Le-am cumparat datorita agitatiei din jurul acestui autor (mnah, m-a prins si pe mine valul) dar chiar mi-a placut TFIOS; e mult mai "muncita". Cealalta i-ar fi placut mai mult adolescentei de 14 ani din mine. Oricum, sunt carti din categoria "quotable"; mi-au placut in mod special aceste doua paragrafe:
RăspundețiȘtergere"There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. [...] There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." (The Fault in Our Stars) -- completand citatul deja postat de Bianca :)
"Rābi'a al-'Adawiyya, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, «I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise, so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.»" (Looking for Alaska)