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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Rebe, como todas las hermanas, era mamá cuando mamá no estaba; los hermanos, sin embargo, estamos absueltos de ser papá, lo cual no significa nada.”
― Manuel Jabois, Malaherba

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Ella te mira, se pasa la vida la vida mirándote aunque tú no te des cuenta y ahora, en este instante por primera vez en tu vida -con siete añitos- le devuelves la cortesía y la miras. Es tu abuela. Pero tal vez no es solo tu abuela -hay un mundo que no te pertenece, y no pasa nada-, tal vez ella también tiene pensamientos que te son ajenos.”
― Marta Jiménez Serrano, Los nombres propios

“Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos.”
― Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

“Everything matters so much and so little; it is disgusting.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“La forma en que nombramos plantas, flores, frutos, aun usando un mismo idioma, devela nuestro origen tanto o más que cualquier tonada. De allí somos, de donde florece o da fruto cada palabra.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Catedrales

“La extrañaba incluso más que a Ana, tal vez porque echar de menos a alguien vivo tiene más sentido que hacerlo con un muerto. La muerte pide resignación, la ausencia no.”
― Claudia Piñeiro, Catedrales

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea