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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Uno se hace hombre, se hace más humano, cuando tiene su propia biblioteca, aunque sea de un solo libro.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“El libro es jardín que se puede llevar en el bolsillo, nave espacial que viaja en la mochila, arma para enfrentar las mejores batallas y afrentar a los peores enemigos, semilla de libertad, pañuelo para las lágrimas. El libro es cama mullida y cama de clavos, el libro te obliga a pensar, a sonreír, a llorar, a enojarte ante lo injusto y aplaudir la venganza de los justos. El libro es comida, techo, asiento, ropa que me arropa, boca que besa mi boca. Lugar que contiene el universo.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“En un lugar de la Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme...”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha, Volume 1

“La tía Daniela se enamoró como se enamoran siempre las mujeres inteligentes: como una idiota.”
― Angeles Mastretta, Mujeres de ojos grandes

“Nadie se muere de amor, Catalina, ni aunque quisiéramos.”
― Ángeles Mastretta, Arráncame la vida

“¿Y ustedes qué? ¿Se quieren o se van a querer?”
― Ángeles Mastretta, Arráncame la vida

“-Ay, hija- le contestó su madre, acariciándola mientras hablaba-, sino he podido creer en la verdadera religión ¿cómo se te ocurre que voy a creer en una falsa?”
― Ángeles Mastretta, Mujeres de ojos grandes

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant. ”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“So, as I was saying, guys and girls can be friends.

Best friends.

And what's better than falling in love with your best friend?

Nothing.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“Como si no fuera suficiente con todo lo que tenemos que aprender en la vida, encima hay que enfrentar el terrible problema de desaprender lo que ya sabíamos y no nos sirve, de borrar los archivos previos que ya se han quedado obsoletos.”
― Juana Inés Dehesa, Treintona, soltera y fantástica: Manual de supervivencia

“A los treinta, en cambio, te sorprendes usando las frases de tu mamá que juraste no repetir nunca,”
― Juana Inés Dehesa, Treintona, soltera y fantástica: Manual de supervivencia

“You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply because it's true. And truth is bright. Truth makes you more you.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren’t so helpless.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“We do things sometimes because we feel so much inside of us, and we don’t notice how it affects somebody else.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“(...) después de la primavera va el verano; después del trueno, el relámpago; después de "gracias", "de nada"; pero no siempre después de "te quiero", va "y yo a ti". A veces, después de "te quiero", va "pues yo no". Y no hay forma de decirlo sin arrugar para siempre el corazón de alguien.”
― Begoña Oro, Croquetas y wasaps

“Cuando algo bueno nos pasa, hay que saber vivirlo. Hay que lanzarse de cabeza a esa piscina de felicidad, zambullirse sin miedo, perder el traje de baño, empaparse el pelo, irritarse los ojos, tragar agua, apurar hasta quedarse casi sin aire... Dame todos los daños colaterales de la felicidad, pero dame felicidad.”
― Begoña Oro, Croquetas y wasaps

“Por encima de todo, hay que saber decir adiós a los vivos que no nos hacen felices y a los que no podemos hacer felices. Lo demás es hacer el imbécil. Lo demás son telarañas.”
― Begoña Oro, Croquetas y wasaps