💬 Quotes

"You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see?"

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

"The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that."

"I am not a man who forgets. That is my strength, and that is my curse."

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."

"Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall."

"読書とは単なる情報の摂取ではなく、著者の思考プロセスを追体験し、自らの価値観を拡張する旅である。"

"ジャンルという枠組みは、本を制限するものではなく、膨大な知識の海で迷子にならないための羅針盤として機能する。"

"古典と呼ばれる作品が真に価値を持つのは、それが時代を超えて現代の課題に対してさえも鋭い洞察を投げかけるからだ。"

"洋書を読むことは、異文化の論理構造を直接吸収することであり、それは翻訳書を通すだけでは決して得られない体験である。"

"ベストセラーを追うだけではなく、個人の好奇心に導かれてロングセラーの深淵に触れることこそが、教養を磨く鍵となる。"

"一冊の本との出会いは、その後の人生の視点を変える可能性がある。本書が読者にとってその「変曲点」となる一冊を見つける助けとなれば幸いである。"

"Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby."

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and people who are Real don't mind how they look."

"Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

"You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept."

"Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings who are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it."

"The iron fist in the velvet glove. That is the secret of real power."