“Can words sprout wings? Can they glide like butterflies through the air? Can they captivate us, carry us off into another world? Can they open the last secret chambers of our souls?” — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“Life, U May told her, is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“What do violent individuals fear most? Violence? I should say not! By what do the cruel and selfish feel most threatened? All of them… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“I’m talking about the organ within us for which we have no name. Let us call it the compass of the heart.” — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure I would put it that way. When we get over something, we move on, we put it behind us. Do we… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“[He taught her] that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age, and that… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“That in every life, without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we will age, and that we cannot elude death. These are the laws and… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“To forgive, one must love and be loved. Only those who forgive can be free. Whoever forgives is a prisoner no more.” — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes as uncomfortable. We respond with doubt and suspicion. We misinterpret… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“Not all truths are explicable, Julia," he said. "And not all explicable things are true.” — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“Who are you? What’s your name?” “Mi Mi.” “Do you hear that thumping noise?” “No.” “It must be here somewhere.” Tin Win knelt down.… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
“He expected nothing more from life. Not because he was disappointed or embittered. He expected nothing because there was nothing of importance that he… — jan-philipp sendker Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST TIME she left the house with her sleeping son in her arms, still unsteady on her legs, gripping the railing tightly, she… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
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