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

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
― Sylvia Plath

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”
― Ali Smith, Hotel World

“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
― Ali Smith, How to be Both

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”
― Ali Smith

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
― Ali Smith

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Los libros son como las mariposas. Habitualmente tienen las alas plegadas, como cuando las mariposas descansan dobre una hoja y desenrrollan su trompa filiforme para sorber el agua de una gota de rocío. Cuando abres un libro este echa a volar. Y tú con él, como si volaras en el cuello de plumón de una mariposa gigante. Pero el libro no tiene un único par de alas, sino cientos, clara señal de que te puede llevar no solo de flor en flor por este mundo glorioso, sino a centenares de mundos habitados. Algunos guardan gran parecido con el mundo en que vivimos, otros están habitados por seres que solo se muestran en sueños."
El ojo castaño de nuestro amor”
― Mircea Cărtărescu

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar