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“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we’ll work to keep them.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“If you've been an arsehole today, acknowledge it.
Try not to be one tomorrow.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“If you're not fighting for it, you don't want it.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“The pain of having fucked things up so bad will never leave us.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“But now there is a loneliness so deep it sends me foetal”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“We wander into school, happy children; kind and bright and interested in things. We don’t yet know the horrors of the building. The hatred it will teach. The boredom it will bring.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“I didn’t have a clue what it meant
but I’ve been dizzy on that feeling ever since.”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“And you do not need my forgiveness, nor I yours; it is all the same whether you forgive or not, all the rest of my life you will remain like a wound in my soul, and I in yours - and that is proper”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“La mia solitudine è dignitosa, la affronto a testa alta, ma se la guardo in faccia mi deride, mi ferisce fa ritornare tutte le solitudini del passato. E' così: ogni solitudine contiene tutte le solitudini vissute.”
― Stefano Benni, Di tutte le ricchezze

“Per favore, non guardi così fissamente quelle ragazzine. Vuole che tutti si accorgano che siamo preti?”
― Stefano Benni, La Compagnia dei Celestini

“Ho perduto la donna che ho amato senza lottare, senza credere in me e in lei. Poco importa quello che ho imparato dopo, non conta quanto io sia cambiato, allora commisi questo delitto, il delitto di lasciarla sola.”
― Stefano Benni, Di tutte le ricchezze

“Non tentarmi, il mio cuore è fragile
Consumato, ferito. Batte
A fatica per me, non può batter per due
Scegli bene le parole tue
Una sola e si potrebbe spezzare
Non voglio più amare, ricordalo
Troppo amore ho voluto sprecare
Mi è caduto a terra, si è rotto
Parla pure, ripara ed incolla
Il mio fauno non corre, barcolla
Prega le ninfe che gli stanno intorno:
“Non scappate da me così in fretta”
Ma le ninfe ridono e fuggono
Ed è giusto. E’ la loro vendetta.”
― Stefano Benni, Di tutte le ricchezze

“Ci fu una grande battaglia di idee e alla fine non ci furono né vincitori, né vinti, né idee.”
― Stefano Benni

“Ma ancora più subdoli sono i calzini.
Il Nonno Stregone aveva stabilito che, alla sua età, tre erano i modi possibili di infilarli.

Uno, posizione detta "della spogliarellista", steso sul letto con una gamba sensualmente sollevata. Tempo necessario all'impresa: un minuto, salvo perforazione del pedalino da parte dell'unghia dell'alluce.
Due, posizione eretta "gamba sulla sedia". Unico rischio, uno schianto del legno o un colpo della strega.
Tre, posizione "riciclami": andare a letto coi calzini e usare gli stessi la mattina dopo. La meno igienica ma la più rapida.

Inoltre, nello scegliere il paio bisognava tener conto dell'esistenza della LIC, Legge di infedeltà del calzino, che dice così:
Un calzino, messo nel cassetto, cercherà quasi sempre di far coppia con un calzino diverso.”
― Stefano Benni, Pane e tempesta