Eric Machado > Eric's Quotes

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You might like that one. But I’ll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly (...)”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“I guess that's the point of it all. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Alguns erros e tropeços rendem muito mais risadas que os acertos. Quando achamos que está tudo errado é só porque estamos vendo pelo lado errado ou, até mesmo, ao lado das pessoas erradas. Tudo é uma questão de ponto de vista e de saber escolher quem vai estar ao nosso lado para enfrentar todo o resto do mundo.”
― Izabela Lopes, A Noite das Garotas

“A minha vida amorosa é tipo uma cantada no The Voice: quem eu quero, não vira a cadeira. Quem vira, eu não quero. Quando mais de um vira, escolheu errado. Quando tô carente, ninguém vira; quando tô namorando, todos viram ao mesmo tempo.”
― Felipe Barenco, Fake

“É deprimente ser um covarde que se esconde da própria família. É deprimente ter medo de assumir o que se é; deprimente mentir, deprimente fazer cena para corresponder às expectativas preconceituosas dos outros. Ser visto como o cara errado, quando não se está fazendo absolutamente nada de errado, e é muito deprimente ter pena de si mesmo, com medo da inquisição bater na porta do seu quarto em busca de esclarecimentos sobre uma conduta suspeita é imoral.”
― Felipe Barenco, Fake

“Nunca vi muito sentido ter que assumir minha sexualidade para as pessoas, como se fosse algo relevante sobre o meu caráter. Pra mim, é o mesmo que dizer "Eu sou negro" ou "Eu não gosto de pizza de quatro queijos". Mas isso não quer dizer que tenha sido fácil.”
― Felipe Barenco, Fake

“BREVE NOTA SOBRE O AMOR LÍQUIDO
O amor líquido já evaporou. Vivemos na era do amor em estado gasoso; o amor impalpável que se perde no ar porque nos sentimos sufocados com qualquer ameaça de relação mais profunda. Nossos corações estão em coma respirando por aparelhos.”
― Felipe Barenco, Fake