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“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“The moment between deciding to open your eyes and then actually doing it is as scary a thing as there is in the new world.”
― Josh Malerman

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I believe some people are inherently evil.
I believe guilt is a powerful motivator.
I believe redemption is something you can strive for but never fully achieve.
I believe second chances exist only in dreams, never in reality.
I believe you don't have years, or months, or weeks to impact a person's life.
You have seconds.
Seconds to win them over, And seconds to lose them.”
― K.A. Tucker, Four Seconds to Lose

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“You’re killing me here, Sage!”
“I’m not doing anything.”
“Exactly my point.”
― Richelle Mead, Bloodlines

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian

“What the hell?" I asked. Is this daring escape being sponsored by Honda?”
― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)”
― Richelle Mead, Bloodlines

“E poi è successo e da quel momento niente è stato più lo stesso.
Non sarebbe dovuto accadere.
Non con lei.
E ora sono suo, irrimediabilmente suo.”
― Antonella Senese, Tre minuti solo per me

“E poi apro gli occhi e lui è lì, in piedi, in mezzo alla folla.
Ed io vedo solo lui.
Canto solo per lui.
Vivo solo per lui.
Tre minuti per farlo innamorare di me.
Tre minuti sono bastati a me per amarlo.”
― Antonella Senese, Tre minuti di me

“Mi prende per mano e mi solleva, in alto, lontano da tutto questo, lontano dal ricordo, dalle fiamme, dalle paure. Le nostre anime s’incontrano in un luogo che non esiste, non per gli altri, almeno.
Esiste solo per noi.
Tre minuti interminabili in cui mi fa sua, ancora una volta.
Ed io sono sua.”
― Antonella Senese, Tre minuti di me

“Adieu," he said, "this is goodbye. I'll never forget you, never."
She stood silent. He looked at her and saw her eyes full of tears. He turned away.
At this moment she wasn't ashamed of loving him, because her physical desire had gone and all she felt towards him now was pity and a profound, almost maternal tenderness. She forced herself to smile. "Like the Chinese mother who sent her son off to war telling him to be careful 'because war has its dangers,' I'm asking you, if you have any feelings for me, to be as careful as possible with your life."
Because it is precious to you?" he asked nervously.
Yes. Because it is precious to me.”
― Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Gli anni Novanta e i vecchi bar, sale oscure, le nostre facce sbattute. Avevo un brutto maglione sformato comprato al mercato puzzava di pioggia e stivali da motociclista con cui affrontavo scalciando i caustici corridoi della vita. I colori non erano mai saturi, la gente non era mai vivida. Gli anni Novanta erano pieni di luci al neon e lampadine agonizzanti, e affumicati – c’era un sacco di fumo, ovunque andassi. A volte, non si vedeva niente.”
― Sara Zelda Mazzini, Nichi arriva con il buio

“Niente mi ha mai tediato così a fondo nella vita quanto avere vent’anni.”
― Sara Zelda Mazzini, Nichi arriva con il buio

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Ebbi la sensazione che vivessimo soltanto per turbare le coscienze della gente.”
― Sara Zelda Mazzini, Nichi arriva con il buio

“Maybe this is eternal love, this mixture of peace and fire.”
― Julie Maroh, Le bleu est une couleur chaude

“I want to do everything with you. Everything that's possible in a lifetime.”
― Julie Maroh, Le bleu est une couleur chaude

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
― Lewis Carroll

“A word is not simply a word.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“Everybody dies, and everybody loses people they love.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility