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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We often take vengeance long after the fact upon blameless surrogates, reprising the same sins of the ones who trespassed against us, and so perpetuate ad infinitum the pain we suffered at their hands.”
― Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“La humanidad necesita para vivir mitos y mentiras. Si uno ve la verdad escueta se pega un tiro.”
― Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Mientras más se prohíbe, menos se cumple.”
― Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“A Dios, como al doctor Frankenstein su monstruo, el hombre se le fue de la smanos.”
― Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“…cuando la humanidad se sienta en sus culos ante un televisor a ver veintidós adultos infantiles dándole patadas a un balón no hay esperanzas…”
― Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the book thief without the words.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“We live and breathe words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games