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“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Lo que guardo en la memoria de esos años son los autores que descubrí, los libros queridos que leí con esa voracidad con que uno se envicia de literatura a los dieciocho años!”
― MARIO VARGAS LLOSA,, Los jefes / Los cachorros

“Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.”
― Lemony Snicket, The End

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.”
― Jose Saramago, Blindness

“La ceguera también es esto, vivir en un mundo donde se ha acabado la esperanza”
― José Saramago, Ensayo sobre la ceguera

“the only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

“I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce."
"It’s a clever lettuce, then."
"Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?"
"Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked.
"Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass."
I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things