• "All age brings is space between your words and what they mean and sighs of sympathy. These years are rings with time to grieve alone and in your bed sick of what's in your head. All your worries gone." -- this is not a dance, deer leap
• "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love." -- your lie in april
• "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband." -- still alice, lisa genova
• "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing." -- house of leaves, mark z. danielewski
• "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this." -- your lie in april
• "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance." -- call me by your name, andré aciman
• "I don't know why I go walking at night, but now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore. I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life until I find what it is that I've been looking for." -- the river of dreams, billy joel
• "I know, I know. Now you're going to deny it. Even though it's ludicrously obvious to everyone around you, you two will go on pretending it's not true because you're emotional infants. You're in a living hell. You love each other and you hate each other and you hate yourselves for loving each other. Well, my dear friends, I want no part of it. It's time I just picked up where I left off. It's time to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. So I'll get out of here so you can just get on with your denial fest." -- cheers, glen charles & les charles & james burrows
• "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either." -- natsume's book of friends, yuki midorikawa
• "I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of something has always been and always will be you." -- house of leaves, mark z. danielewski
• "Maybe someday we can talk about our past and we can talk about the weather; whenever you leave I don't care what I'm remembered for, I just want to be remembered." -- nicole, hotel books
• "Read books. Devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything." -- a heart in a body in the world, deb caletti
• "Remember the day I set you free, I told you you could always count on me. From that day on, I made a vow. I'll be there when you want me, some way, some how." -- ain't no moutanin high enough, marvin gaye & tammi terrell
• "That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow ever since the night he awoke, shaken by a bad dream, and realised that death was not only a permanent probability, as he has always believed, but an immediate reality." -- love in the time of cholera, gabriel garcía márquez
• "The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it. It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down. I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin." -- the yellow wallpaper
• "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it." -- final fantasy XIV
• "You found something else. In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life. It was when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted... you told them you'd rather die. You faced your death, Evey. You were calm. You were still." -- v for vendetta, alan moore & david lloyd(?)

yuzuru hanyu at 30: his current coordinates

• source: https://www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkating/comments/1kjpe4a/yuzuru_hanyu_at_30_his_current_coordinates_goethe/
• "The synergy between skating, projections, and storytelling has grown richer. It’s as if the roots and branches I’ve nurtured — not just through skating but by absorbing inspiration from everywhere — are finally forming a sturdy trunk."
• "I design programs thinking, this is impossible — in a good way. Before, winning gold was the goal. Now, it’s about executing my vision flawlessly... It’s about turning ‘impossible’ into ‘possible.'"
• "Setting goals is tricky. Short-term ones are easier but less fulfilling. Distant ones risk burnout. But for me, the farther the goal, the more I thrive on the struggle."
• "I’ve always hyper-focused on the present. People think I’m mentally unshakable, but my resolve wavers easily — hardships, criticism, exhaustion... Yet I’ve learned to cherish those fragile moments. That’s how I’ve lasted 30 years."
• "I’m unusually excited about tomorrow. If I don’t act responsibly today, tomorrow will hurt. Today’s condition is yesterday’s doing."