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“Because you are my sister in every fiber of my being....but there are aother strands that link us, that wouldn't be seen by even the strongest electron microscope.......We are conjoined by hundreds os thousands of memories that silt down into you and stop being memories and become a part of who you are.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“You told me once that the last of the senses to go is hearing. But you're wrong. The last of the senses to go is love.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Afterwards

“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.”
― Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha, Vol. 1

“-Βλέπεις, φίλε Σάντσο Πάνθα, εκείνους τους τριάντα και περισσότερους γίγαντες που φαίνονται στο βάθος; Σκέφτομαι να δώσω μάχη μαζί τους, κι αφού τους εξοντώσω όλους, ν' αρχίσουμε να πλουτίζουμε με τα λάφυρά τους.
-Ποιους γίγαντες; είπε ο Σάντσο Πάνθα.
-Εκείνους που βλέπεις εκεί πέρα, απάντησε ο κύριός του, με τα μακρουλά χέρια, που μερικά απ' αυτά ξεπερνάνε τις δυο λεύγες.
-Κοιτάχτε η ευγένειά σας, απάντησε ο Σάντσο, αυτού που φαίνονται εκεί πέρα δεν είναι γίγαντες παρά ανεμόμυλοι, κι αυτά που μοιάζουν σαν να 'ναι χέρια τους είναι οι φτερούγες, που, φέροντας βόλτες, κάνουν να γυρίζει η μυλόπετρα.
-Είναι φανερό, απάντησε ο Δον Κιχώτης, ότι δεν είσαι ενήμερος σ' αυτό που λέγεται περιπέτεια: εκείνοι είναι γίγαντες κι αν φοβάσαι, τραβήξου πιο κει, και καν' την προσευχή σου όσο εγώ θα δίνω μαζί τους σκληρή κι άνιση μάχη.”
― Μιγκελ Θερβάντεςι

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.”
― Catherine Breillat, Romance

“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother