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“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”
― Jonathan Carroll

“El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo podemos imaginárnoslo mirando la forma de las cosas que, de vez en cuando, suben a la superficie.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

“Write about what you're afraid of.”
― Donald Barthelme

“Everything you want in life has teeth.”
― Jonathan Carroll, From the Teeth of Angels

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“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

“This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about his own Paps, how he beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.”
― Justin Torres, We the Animals

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Haber nacido me ha estropeado la salud.”
― Clarice Lispector

“There are no truly strong people. Only people who pretend to be strong.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”
― Stanisław Lem

“I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.”
― Stanisław Lem, Fiasco

“Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!”
― Stanislaw Lem

“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“I had noticed that I had no difficulty conversing with robots, because absolutely nothing surprised them. They were incapable of surprise. A very sensible quality.”
― Stanisław Lem, Return From the Stars

“Raz w życiu pomyliły mi się kroki i od tego czasu chodzę krzywo.”
― Marek Hłasko, Następny do raju

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
― Murakami, Haruki