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“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.”
― Molly Ivins, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Pero, dejando aparte los incongruentes colores primarios, de guardería, de la zona de visitas, la estética de Claverack es austera, y pone en evidencia lo aterradoramente poco que queda de la vida cuando le quitas los perifollos que la adornan.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“En realidad, dudo de que la compasión sea una cualidad natural o innata.”
― Charles Darwin

“Superar exige asumir, no pasar página o echar en el olvido.”
― Alberto Méndez, Los girasoles ciegos

“Lucy deploraba su actitud y los motivos que él daba. Ella siempre se ofendía cuando él hablaba de unos objetivos en la vida diferentes a los suyos, como si estuviesen atacando sus decisiones y opiniones.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath