Шляхи життя

Если нас спросят, все ли жизни одинаково бесценны, большинство убежденно ответят «да!». Но это пока им не укажут на кого-то, кого мы любим и не спросят: «И эта тоже ?

You were the girl’s age when you asked what I did. I told you I made money. You said everyone did that. I said, “No, the majority of people just survive, they think their things have a value but nothing does. Things only have a price, based on expectation, and I do business with that. The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that.”

But the vast majority of successful people don’t become bastards, we were bastards long before. That’s why we’ve been successful.

“But the universe gave you both Noah. He’s the bridge between you. That’s why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we’re apologizing to our children.”

“How did you fall in love with her?” the boy asks. Grandpa’s hands land with one palm on his own knee and one on the boy’s.
“She got lost in my heart, I think. Couldn’t find her way out. Your grandma always had a terrible sense of direction. She could get lost on an escalator.”

“Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we’re big,” Noah tells him.
“What did you write?”
“I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first.”
“That’s a very good answer.”
“Isn’t it? I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it’s just children and old people who laugh.”
“Did you write that?”
“Yes.”
“What did your teacher say?”
“She said I hadn’t understood the task.”
“And what did you say?”
“I said she hadn’t understood my answer.”

I ...... showed you how to identify the losers at a table: weak men with strong schnapps.

I failed with you. I tried to make you tough. You ended up kind

The papers wrote about my money, no one knew I was ill yet, but I’m the kind of person whose diagnosis will make the news. I’m not an ordinary person, everyone will hear about it when I die.

Most of us so desperately want to believe that every heart which stops beating is missed equally.