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“I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“Πιστεύω πως όσο υπάρχουν όνειρα υπάρχει ακόμα ελπίδα για κάτι καλό, ευχάριστο και αισιόδοξο. Στο χέρι μας είναι”
― Μίνως-Αθανάσιος Καρυωτάκης

“«Ένα καταστραμμένο όνειρο είναι σαν μακρινές αναμνήσεις. Οι μακρινές
ενθυμήσεις είναι σαν ένα καταστραμμένο όνειρο. Πρέπει να ενώσω τα
κομμάτια»”
― Μίνως-Αθανάσιος Καρυωτάκης, Το λίκνο της ζωής

“It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout

“For three months,
a person sits and looks at you,
imagining a kiss.”
― Etgar Keret

“He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.”
― Etgar Keret, Gaza Blues: Different Stories

“You can remember without seeing it.”
― Etgar Keret, Missing Kissinger

“«Αγόρι μου, να θυμάσαι ότι το τελευταίο φιλί μαζί της θα συνεχίσει να σε στοιχειώνει για πάντα. Μην της το δώσεις ποτέ», είπε ο σεβάσμιος γέροντας καθώς ενατένιζε τα άστρα…”
― Μίνως-Αθανάσιος Καρυωτάκης

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”
― Mark Twain

“There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."
(King Pelles the Sure)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“You’ve missed it again, you’ve gone wrong again, you thought you had time, you thought that even someone whose days were numbered would wait for you. That’s the kind of person you are, dozing while more opportunities pass you by (...)”
― Zeruya Shalev, The Remains of Love

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
― Mary Shelley

“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.”
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I don’t care about losing people who don’t wanna be in my life anymore. I’ve lost people who meant the world to me and I’m still doing just fine.”
― Pleasure P

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.”
― Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and Other Stories

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
― John Connolly, Nocturnes