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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Estoy cansado de esperar a que las circunstancias sean perfectas, nunca lo son.”
― Eva García Sáenz, El silencio de la ciudad blanca

“To my wonderful readers:
Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHAHAHA.
But seriously, I love you guys.”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?" - Will Herondale”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I am not anybody's, Will. My heart is my own.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Don't talk to me."
"Why not?"
"Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“El nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

“Una historia es un laberinto infinito de palabras, imágenes y espíritus conjurados para desvelarnos la verdad invisible sobre nosotros mismos. Una historia es, en definitiva, una conversación entre quien la narra y quien la escucha, y un narrador solo puede contar hasta donde le llega el oficio y un lector solo puede leer hasta donde lleva escrito en el alma.
Esa es la regla maestra que sostiene todo artificio de papel y tinta, porque cuando se apagan las luces, se silencia la música y se vacía el patio de butacas, lo único que importa es el espejismo que ha quedado grabado en el teatro de la imaginación que alberga todo lector en su mente. Eso y la esperanza que todo hacedor de cuentos lleva dentro: que el lector haya abierto su corazón a alguna de sus criaturas de papel y le haya entregado algo de sí mismo para hacerla inmortal, aunque solo sea por unos minutos.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

“Y dicho esto con más solemnidad de la que probablemente merece la ocasión, más vale aterrizar a ras de página y pedirle al amigo lector que nos acompañe al cierre de esta historia y nos ayude a encontrar lo más difícil para un pobre narrador atrapado en su propio laberinto: la puerta de salida.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

“No es bueno dejarse arrastrar por los sueños y olvidarse de vivir, recuérdalo.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid.

Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed.

Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep.

No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way.

They all end the same, too.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated as roses.”
― Mizuho Kusanagi