Alexander Páez > Alexander's Quotes

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Toda mi vida modifica el libro que estoy leyendo.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.”
“What causes the other ten percent?” asked Kizzy.
“Natural disasters,” said Nib.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“All you can do, Rosemary – all any of us can do – is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“The truth is, Rosemary, that you are capable of anything. Good or bad. You always have been, and you always will be. Given the right push, you, too, could do horrible things. That darkness exists within all of us. You think every soldier who picked up a cutter gun was a bad person? No. She was just doing what the soldier next to her was doing, who was doing what the soldier next to her was doing, and so on and so on. And I bet most of them — not all, but most — who made it through the war spent a long time after trying to understand what they’d done. Wondering how they ever could have done it in the first place. Wondering when killing became so comfortable.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“The power of letters is immeasurable. Use them with care".”
― Izumi Kyōka

“¿Podría imaginar usted que el tiempo se dilatara tanto? El tiempo que tarda un fuego en prenderse al golpear dos piedras dura tan solo un pestañeo; lo mismo que tarda en apagarse. El tiempo que gasta una bala en atravesar a alguien dura tan solo un pestañeo. Cuando un ser humano cualquiera pestañea, el agua del río sigue su curso y el viento sigue soplando. Pero al abrir los ojos nada ha cambiado: las hojas siguen verdes y el sol incandescente. No hay nada en este mundo que se desvanezca. Así, si aquel que pestañea llegase a comprender que nosotros habitamos ese instante, por mucho que desapareciéramos cuando volviera a abrir los ojos, no tendría por qué poner en duda nuestra existencia en este mundo, ¿verdad?”
― Kyōka Izumi, Laberinto de hierba