Dalia Clovers > Dalia's Quotes

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“El Distrito Federal es una ciudad que tiene origen de quimera, sacada del agua, levantada sobre el agua. Los mexicanos viven sobre lo inestable, trampa, marisma y pantano a la vez. Aquí lo real y lo irreal se confunden.”
― Elena Poniatowska

“Hoy no quiero ser dulce, tranquila, decente, sumisa, comprensiva, resignada, las cualidades que siempre ponderan los amigos. Tampoco quiero ser maternal; Diego no es un niño grande, Diego sólo es un hombre que no escribe porque no quiere y me ha olvidado por completo.”
― Elena Poniatowska, Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me--and I care about him!"

Warner nods, unimpressed. "You should get a dog, love. I hear they share much the same qualities.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever.

Because this.

This is everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
― Abraham Sutzkever

“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"

He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again.

"You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes.

"Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“- No pongas esa cara – lo consoló el ente – Hay más beneficios que prejuicios en todo esto, por eso me llamaste.
- Lo hice por mi hija…
El negociante asintió complacido.
- Puedo prometerte que cumpliré mi parte del trato pero – levantó un dedo y con él señaló a Gaspar – Tú debes cumplir la tuya.
- ¿Tengo otra opción? – refunfuñó el hombre.
La criatura sonrió como un zorro.
- No, de hecho no.”
― Dalia Clovers, La Novia de Fuego

“Últimamente, las pesadillas habían disminuido por una razón y Zaya sonrió al recordar cuál era.”
― Dalia Clovers, La Novia de Fuego

“- Entonces ámame.
- ¿Que te ame?
- Sí, ámame.”
― Dalia Clovers, La Novia de Fuego

“America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?”
― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 42: The Secret of the Mangekyo

“...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts... their reality may all be an illusion.”
― Kishimoto Masashi Uchiha Itachi - chapter 385

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

“When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“«No existe ningún hombre en el mundo que merezca que un corazón de mujer se destroce por él. Un hombre, aun cuando se cree enamorado apasionadamente, encontrará siempre alguna otra mujer para consolarse.”
― Cristina Morató, Reinas malditas