Mar Zapata > Mar's Quotes

“I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together--it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."

"But you're doing it now--in a way."

"Yes, in a way--that's how I always say things: in a way.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The way she saw it, too much religion could be as bad as too little, maybe even worse; but moderation was just not in her husband’s nature.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."
What fun it must be!"
Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."
Are none of the others girls?"
Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Family is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“It was as if June had given her a box—as if every parent gives their children a box—full of the things they carried. June had given her children this box packed to the brim with her own experiences, her own treasures and heartbreaks. Her own guilts and pleasures, triumphs and losses, values and biases, duties and sorrows. And Nina had been carrying around this box her whole life, feeling the full weight of it. But it was not, Nina saw just then, her job to carry the full box. Her job was to sort through the box. To decide what to keep, and to put the rest down. She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Come along. Let’s get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion.”
― Cat Winters, The Cure for Dreaming

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
― Poppy Z.Brite

“I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

“Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

“If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

“Let the night come. We are not afraid.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

“Which monster do you choose?”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“But love? Who can say what is just a mire of dark needs and desires, and what is true love? Does such a thing exist? Can't it be that if we say, 'I love you' to another person and know that we mean it, then that is love, regardless of the motive?”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor

“The membranes that separate us from insanity, from the fall, the monsters, are so thin. Only paper walls.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die

“Noemí, just because there are no ghosts it doesn’t mean you can’t be haunted. Nor that you shouldn’t fear the haunting.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“She’d always been so afraid that the land would eat her, but it was obvious now that the answer was you had to eat it.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Untamed Shore

“(«a mí no me define el peso; la gordura es un estado mental»)”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“libros en cualquier superficie disponible”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“La desolación es absoluta. Ruth no tiene la menor idea de por qué le gusta tanto.”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“Ruth no puede explicar, ni siquiera a sí misma, que una niña nacida y crecida en el sur de Londres sienta una atracción tan grande por estas inhóspitas marismas, por estos humedales desolados y por este paisaje solitario y monótono.”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“Ruth tiene especial interés por los huesos.”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“Ruth no se fija en ninguna de estas cosas al dejar el coche en la plaza de siempre y sacar su pesada mochila. Pesada por estar medio llena de huesos.”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“Ruth simula pensárselo, pero está completamente fascinada, por supuesto. ¡Huesos!”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“–Los cuerpos enterrados en turba se conservan en un estado casi perfecto, pero hay quien cree que los enterraron en turberas con algún propósito. Para aplacar a los dioses.”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“–El carbono 14 está presente en la atmósfera de la Tierra. Lo absorben las plantas, luego los animales se las comen y nosotros nos comemos a los animales. Total, que todos absorbemos carbono 14, hasta que al morirnos dejamos de absorberlo y el que hay en nuestros huesos empieza a descomponerse. Por eso, medir la cantidad de carbono 14 que queda en un hueso es una manera de saber su antigüedad.”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“Los faros iluminan el asfalto de la carretera. A ambos lados la tierra se pierde de vista, dándole la sensación de que conduce por la nada. Delante solo está la carretera; encima, solo el cielo. «Donde se juntan la tierra y el cielo.»”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano

“Está claro que Collins era un buen conocedor del paisaje ritual del mar y de la tierra, y de los extraños y fantasmagóricos lugares que se extienden entre ambos.”
― Elly Griffiths, Los ecos del pantano