Romina > Romina's Quotes

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“It’s rarely good when someone says your full name, except perhaps when it’s at the end of “I have a package for.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother", everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“My granny used to say if you’re too sharp you’ll cut yourself,”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“Supposing there was justice for all, after all? For every unheeded beggar, every harsh word, every neglected duty, every slight... every choice... Because that was the point, wasn't it? You had to choose. You might be right, you might be wrong, but you had to choose, knowing that the rightness or wrongness might never be clear or even that you were deciding between two sorts of wrong, that there was no right anywhere. And always, always, you did it by yourself. You were the one there, on the edge, watching and listening. Never any tears, never any apology, never any regrets... You saved all that up in a way that could be used when needed.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“Let the Queen do the fighting cos if you lose the King, you've lost everything.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don’t want to ever forget.”
― Stephanie Perkins , Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Buenos Aires era una ciudad sorprendente. Parecía hecha con pedazos de ciudades de todo el mundo y las había amalgamado de manera mágica entre callejuelas, avenidas y edificios de porte señorial.”
― Leo Batic, Heredera de dragones

“A veces es bueno escuchar al cielo, porque nos anuncia la llegada de la tormenta. Está en nosotros decidir si queremos mojarnos o escondernos hasta que pase el temporal.”
― Leo Batic, Heredera de dragones

“... verás, no es bueno atacar con odio, uno pierde perspectiva, concentración y claridad.”
― Leo Batic, Heredera de dragones

“Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.”
― Lemony Snicket, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

“I was in my favorite seat in the library, but it wasn’t helping me like the book any better. It was a book people kept putting in my hands and telling me I was going to love, the way the doctor tells you the needle won’t hurt a bit. The book began the way it always began before I gave up on it: with a man carrying around a drawing or a snake that had just eaten, and asking people what they thought of it. I thought it was no way to start up a conversation.”
― Lemony Snicket, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

“The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.”
― Lemony Snicket, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

“- “What kind of funny?” I asked her. “Funny like a clown onstage? Or funny like a clown hanging around the entrance to a bank?”
-“The bank one.”
― Lemony Snicket, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

“They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Lo habitual en los sueños son las aventuras extrañas, asombrosas y terribles. Las tierras incógnitas vienen y van. Los sueños épicos se despliegan. Las guerras se luchan y se ganan. Los seres queridos se pierdan y se encuentran. Mientras dormimos, vivimos vidas completamente diferentes. Y después despertamos, con disgusto o alivio, como si no hubiera ocurrido nada.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams