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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.”
― Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent

“The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Le donne che leggono sono più sensuali di quelle che sfilano sul lungomare. Hanno l'eleganza nell'anima.”
― Massimo Bisotti

“Quell'uomo regalava libri ad una donna. Non gioielli, né vestiti. Libri.”
― Ella M. Endif, Manuale della perfetta adultera

“Talvolta penso che il paradiso sia leggere continuamente, senza fine.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Lo sai che penso? Che è facile stare insieme quando va tutto bene. Il difficile è quando si devono superare le montagne, fa freddo e tira vento. Allora, forse, per trovare calore, uno si deve fare un poco più vicino. Te lo dice uno che campa nel freddo. E che non ha nessuno per trovare calore.”
― Maurizio de Giovanni, La condanna del sangue: La primavera del commissario Ricciardi

“La miglior vendetta? La felicità. Non c'è niente che faccia più impazzire la gente che vederti felice.”
― Alda Merini

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“Alcuni guardano il fango sul fondo dello stagno, altri contemplano il fiore di loto sulla superficie dell'acqua. E' una scelta.”
― Raphaëlle Giordano, Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu n'en as qu'une

“Vede, Camille, che impatto hanno ancora su di lei gli eventi esterni disturbanti? Permette loro di compromettere il suo benessere. La verità è che non potrà mai controllare del tutto il corso delle cose, e rischia di sentirsi esternamente come un piccolo tappo di sughero sballottato da onde capricciose. Per il saggio, invece, la tempesta può anche scatenarsi in superficie, ma in profondità continua a regnare la calma... Il segreto è riprendere il controllo della propria mente e decidere di vivere bene anche le cose sgradevoli. Trovare il positivo anche nel negativo Vedrà, è un approccio all'esistenza che cambia tutto.”
― Raphaëlle Giordano, Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu n'en as qu'une

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White

“It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“Then I understood I would never marry him. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then—a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan