Cami L. González > Cami's Quotes

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that”
― Alex Gino, Melissa

“Los cuentos de hadas superan la realidad no porque nos digan que los dragones existen, sino porque nos dicen que pueden ser vencidos.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“What is a Messiah but another means of inequality?”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“In the end, a fairy tale is nothing more than a sense of hope. Hope lures and tricks. It tempts with shining thrones, exquisite nectars, and loving arms. It whispers to us that we are extraordinary. Exempt. Thus lured, we follow its path. Sometimes we are led to riches. Other times, we are led astray. But this hope never hides its shape, and for its honesty we reach for it and pull its sweet and stinking furs up to our chins, for to live without it means living without magic.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

“We were originally naked in the garden of paradise, "but unashamed." After the serpent of forced assimilation, "we were taught shame upon our natural beauty.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!