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“The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.”
― Mo Yan, Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh

“A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls—the demons’ pen.”
― Mo Yan, The Garlic Ballads

“There are people who walk mules and people walk horses, but I never thought there were people who walk cops.”
― Mo Yan, Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh

“The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.”
― Mo Yan, Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh and Other Stories

“A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.”
― Mo Yan, The Republic of Wine

“Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut.
"You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk? People around here who get drunk are the dregs of society, illiterates, uncouth people. Highbrow folks, those of the 'spring snow,' cannot get drunk. You're a highbrow, therefore you cannot be drunk.”
― Mo Yan, The Republic of Wine

“Todo el mundo sabía que las balas no tienen ojos, que las bombas no son muy dadas a pedir disculpas y que los soldados son como tigres que han bajado de la montaña, tigres que no son precisamente vegetarianos.”
― Mo Yan, Big Breasts & Wide Hips

“Heavens never seals off all the exits”
― Mo Yan

“-Pero, cómo pudo Lu Wenli irse con el profesor Liu? -pregunté-. ¡Es inconcebible!
-Acaso era concebible meterle la pelota en la boca de un requetazo? -replicó He Zhiwu.
Indudablemente, eso formaba parte de las cosas inconcebibles, lo que demuestra que los asuntos de este mundo sufren infinitos cambios y evoluciones, que la suerte reúne a las parejas predestinadas a través de las más extrañas e imprevisibles coincidencias. No hay nada imposible.”
― Mo Yan, Change

“Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“Lo tengo clarísimo: si un hombre no puede casarse con la mujer a la que ama, tiene que buscarse una que le aporte el mayor número de ventajas posible.”
― Mo Yan, Change

“And I don't think your beautiful, i think your beyond it.”
― Lil Wayne

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
― Thomas Merton

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Let me tell you what you feel like when you know you are ready to die.
You sleep a lot, and when you wake up the very first thought in your head is that you wish you could go back to bed.
You go entire days without eating, because food is a commodity that keeps you here.
You read the same page a hundred times.
You rewind your life like a videocassette and see the things that make you weep, things that make you pause, but nothing that makes you want to play it forward.
You forget to comb your hair, to shower, to dress.
And then one day, when you make the decision that you have enough energy left in you to do this one, last, monumental thing, there comes a peace. Suddenly you are counting moments as you haven’t for months. Suddenly you have a secret that makes you smile, that makes people say you look wonderful, although you feel like a shell-brittle and capable of cracking into a thousand pieces. ”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
― Jodi Picoult

“And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I know you love me. The question is, how much?”
― Jodi Picoult

“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!