Rosa (La vida no basta) > Rosa 's Quotes

“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام

“When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.”
― Alex Garland, The Beach

“Everyone laughed, including myself. I think I was starting to feel what they all must have already felt about my last meal – that it was a story playing out on a movie screen and not in real life. All their laughter and curiosity and encouragement wasn't completely evil. It was just the result of some teenage sense of immortality mixed with that thing that makes you slow down and watch a car crash, even when you don't really want to look.”
― Erin Jade Lange, Butter

“All I ever wanted to do was take charge of what people were saying online and, sure, maybe make them feel a little bad about it. I never meant for my threat to truly be a swan song – just a loud note to catch some attention. But the whole mess had taken on a rhythm of its own, and it seemed like I was the only one who couldn't keep the beat. I was playing along with no idea how this tune was supposed to end.”
― Erin Jade Lange, Butter

“I thought about the night I'd started the website. I'd embarrassed myself at school; I was angry at Mom and Dad and the Professor for thinking they could fix me; I was fighting back against that damn 'most likely' list. I wanted people to see my threat and feel guilty. I didn't expect them to believe it. And I sure as hell didn't expect them to like me for it.”
― Erin Jade Lange, Butter

“Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

“Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

“Con mi salvaje orgullo, debería haber sido una mujer superior y escoger de un vistazo, como un águila, entre todos aquellos hombres insulsos, falsos y vacuos, uno de esos seres verdaderos y nobles que son escasos y excepcionales en todos los tiempos. Era demasiado ignorante, demasiado limitada para eso. A fuerza de vivir, adquirí más juicio, me di cuenta de que algunos de entre ellos, que en mi odio había confundido, merecían otros sentimientos. Pero para entonces ya era demasiado vieja.”
― George Sand, La Marquesa

“I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn’t it a splendid thing that there are mornings?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“The wind had kept up its sullen howl. The late-afternoon sun continued to shine in through the window, laying a blanket of bright gold over the woman and her almost-baby. The old clock on the kitchen wall still clicked its minutes with fussy punctuality. A life had come and gone and nature had not paused a second for it. The machine of time and space grinds on, and people are fed through it like grist through the mill.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don’t know this . . . seventeen never knows it.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. When I was seventeen, Anne, I didn’t think forty-five would find me a white-haired little old maid with nothing but dreams to fill my life.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“You don't always see how much other people are shaping you.”
― Lily King

“He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.”
― Lily King, Euphoria

“El bote era en verdad mucho mayor que todas las canoas o piraguas hechas de troncos que yo viera en mi vida. Muchos hachazos me había costado por cierto, y ahora solo faltaba botarlo al agua; de haberlo conseguido hubiera yo emprendido a su bordo el más alocado e imposible viaje de que se tenga memoria alguna.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“In the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“La planta carnívora tiene movimiento propio. Deglute. Atrapa presas vivas. Cuando hacen contacto, activa la trampa. Y las encierra en su interior si están el tiempo suficiente a su alcance.”
― Andrea Mayo, La planta carnívora

“It was like arguing with a tennis-ball launcher: pop, pop, pop – always a comeback.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“For Anglo-Saxons, time is a master. For Mediterraneans, time is a servant.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“You can never take it for granted that family members will like each other.”
― Anne Tyler, French Braid

“You know why people read books like that? Because they’re so happy that fucked-up shit isn’t happening to them.”
― Stephen King, Later

“Y si mis recuerdos entran en armonía con algunos de ustedes, y si lo que yo he sentido (y dejaré de sentir) es comprensible e identificable con algo que ustedes también sienten o han sentido, entonces ese olvido que seremos puede postergarse por un instante más, en el fugaz reverberar de sus neuronas, gracias a los ojos, pocos o muchos, que alguna vez se detengan en estas letras.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“No deja de maravillarme la capacidad que tienen las Parcas para elegir las hebras más retorcidas a la hora de tejer nuestro destino.”
― Beatriz Alcaná, Echidna

“Como te dije una vez, es extraña la manera en que algunas personas entran a formar parte de nuestras vidas; unas vidas que hasta entonces les eran ajenas y de las que inesperadamente se convierten en protagonistas.”
― Beatriz Alcaná, Echidna

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I never like walking with a lantern. I have always the strangest feeling that just outside the circle of light, just over its edge in the darkness, I am surrounded by a ring of furtive, sinister things, watching me from the shadows with hostile eyes.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams