Iveth Martínez > Iveth's Quotes

“Uno se hace hombre, se hace más humano, cuando tiene su propia biblioteca, aunque sea de un solo libro.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
― Emile Zola

“Sometimes dead is better”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Se preguntó con desconsuelo en qué mundo estaban viviendo. Un mundo donde la gente joven intentaba quitarse la vida de algún modo. Decidió que en ese momento estaban sumergidos en una época que se podría llamar el tiempo de los fracasos. Las ilusiones que se habían forjado resultaron ser menos sólidas de lo esperado. Creían edificar una casa y lo que hacían en realidad era erigir un monumento sobre algo ya pasado y casi olvidado. Suecia se derrumbaba alrededor de él, como un sistema político de estantes gigantescos que se viniera abajo. Nadie sabía quiénes serían los carpinteros que estaban en el recibidor esperando entrar para colocar las nuevas estanterías. Tampoco sabía nadie cómo serían éstas. Todo era muy confuso, aparte de que era verano y hacía calor. La gente joven se suicidaba, o al menos intentaba hacerlo. La gente vivía para olvidar, no para recordar. Las viviendas eran escondites más que hogares acogedores. Y los policías estaban callados esperando el momento en el que vigilasen sus celdas de arresto unos hombres con otros uniformes, los hombres de las empresas privadas de seguridad.”
― Henning Mankell, Sidetracked

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“El verbo leer, como el verbo amar y el verbo soñar, no soporta ‘el modo imperativo’. Yo siempre les aconsejé a mis estudiantes que si un libro los aburre lo dejen; que no lo lean porque es famoso, que no lean un libro porque es moderno, que no lean un libro porque es antiguo. La lectura debe ser una de las formas de la felicidad y no se puede obligar a nadie a ser feliz.


The verb reading, like the verb to love and the verb dreaming, doesn't bear the imperative mode. I always advised to my students that if a book bores them leave it; That they don't read it because it's famous, that they don't read a book because it's modern, that they don't read a book because it's antique. The reading should be one of the ways of happiness and nobody can be obliged to be happy.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn't require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and so-called common sense.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

“Unas cuantas palabras amables y eso es todo. La luz del sol vuelve a salir y el mundo retoma su marcha.”
― Antonio Malpica, Al final, las palabras

“Y eso era suficiente para volver su vida un tormento: la promesa de un beso.”
― Antonio Malpica, Al final, las palabras