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I Called Him Necktie QUOTES

1 " Am I still writing? Unthinkable not to. In the very darkest night the words were like shiny pebbles. They caught the light of the moon and stars and reflected it back. One word among them that shone especially brightly. Simplicity. I would approach it, stepping softly, regard it from all sides, finally pick it up, enchanted by it, recognize that its enchantment lay in its shine, its pure meaning. Simplicity. To simply be there. Simply keep going. The longer I kept going, the easier it was to see how beautiful, simply beautiful, it is to be here.

I would like to write about how this word shines. I'd like to write about the simplest things. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

2 " Today on the platform, surrounded by so many people, I asked myself whether I would miss any one of them if they weren't here, and then: Whether they would miss me if I weren't here. Whether we are not all somehow here in order to touch one another. When the train finally came and I saw my reflection in its windows and in the sleeping faces rolling by behind them, there was no question, only an insight: We must all, every one of us, relate to one another. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

3 " After he finished he said: If there is anything for you to learn, it's only that you should not be ashamed. Don't be ashamed to be a person with feelings. No matter what it is, feel it tenderly and deeply. Feel it more tenderly, feel it more deeply. Feel it for yourself. Feel it for others. And then: Let it go. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

4 " And you? What brings you here? I shrugged my shoulders. No idea? Hm, you’re still young. Eighteen? I froze. Nineteen? Twenty? Incredible, so young. You have everything before you. No past. He sighed. Incredible, to have been so young once myself. Although what does that mean? There is only one age for anyone. I was and am, will always be fifty-eight. But you. Be careful what age you end up. It sticks to you. It seals you shut. The age you choose is like glue, it sets around you. This wisdom is not mine, you know. I got it from a book. A movie. I’m not sure. You notice things. It’s incredible. Your whole life you notice things. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

5 " How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

6 " He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

7 " Can you hear me? Sighing. You were right. My requiem is well prepared. Still to be written is the poem that is never complete, an endless rubbing on the ink block, an endless dipping of the pen, an endless swoop over the white paper, the poem of my life. I will try to write it down. Soon, no, now, I will try. The first line. I called him Necktie. I will write: He taught me to see with eyes of feeling. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

8 " Ich streckte die Hand nach dir aus, und vielleicht, das ist meine Antwort auf deine Frage, ist es gerade dieses Ausstrecken, dieses Sich-Hinstrecken zum anderen, welches am dringendsten gebraucht wird. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

9 " Ich höre die Entschuldigung darin. Weil ich sie hören will, höre ich sie. Es ist eine Willensanstrengung. Ich bin sie ihm schuldig. Sie macht es leichter für ihn. [...] Sie macht es leichter für mich. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

10 " Ich zögerte. Überrollt von dem Gefühl, kein Anrecht darauf zu haben, dich so sehr zu brauchen. Aber da standst du. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

11 " If there is anything for you to learn, it's only that you should not be ashamed. Don't be ashamed to be a person with feelings. No matter what it is, feel it tenderly and deeply. Feel it more tenderly, feel it more deeply. Feel it for yourself. Feel it for yourself. Feel it for others. And then: Let it go. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

12 " Someone who only hears laughter in a laugh is deaf. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

13 " I am a plant, she said, I need fire, earth, water. Otherwise I will be stunted. And: Is marriage not such a stunting? The fire goes out. The wind grows weak. The earth dries out. The water dwindles. I would die. You too. She tossed her hair over her shoulders. Purple lavender. And what if it wasn't like that, I argued. What if the daily routine, our daily routine, is my promise to you? Your toothbrush next to mine. You get annoyed because I've forgotten to turn the light off in the bathroom. We choose wallpaper we think is horrible a year later. You tell me I'm getting a belly. Your forgetfulness. You've left your umbrella somewhere again. I snore, you can't sleep. In my dream I whisper your name...You tie my tie. Wave goodbye to me as I go to work. I think: you are like a fluttering flag. I think it with a stabbing pain in my heart. For Heaven's sake, is that not enough? Is that not enough to be happy? She turned away: Give me time. I'll think about it. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

14 " There are rooms one never leaves. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

15 " We must all, every one of us, relate to one another. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

16 " What you don't do, what you omit, often has more painful consequences than what you do. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

17 " If only I had cried, just once. I watched myself not crying. Jaw firm. Swallow. Break something. Quick. The mirror there, broken. And again. Smash your fist into it. A reassuring pain, masking the real one. The one that is not there. Which you force yourself not to feel. Sweep up the fragments. And away with them. To know, to know better, that not crying is crying. And yet you do not cry. Firm up the jaw. Swallow. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

18 " How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

19 " Je leeft maar één keer, wordt gezegd, waarom sterf je dan zo vaak. Alleen de stropdas ontbrak. Ik heb ernaar gezocht. Dat heet droefheid. En ik denk dat droefheid ook de reden was waarom hij zo z'n best heeft gedaan om een mens te zijn die functioneert. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie

20 " We had struck a pact: Better not to know anything about each other. And this pact is what holds families together for generations. We wore masks. Our faces no longer recognizable underneath, for our masks had grown onto us. It hurt to pull them off. It hurt so much that the pain of never meeting face to face was bearable, compared to the pain of showing your true face. "

― Milena Michiko Flašar , I Called Him Necktie