Monica Galan > Monica's Quotes

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“A good house, deep in the woods, with a garden all around it and a river flowing past it. Fruit trees, and flowers planted for the bees. A place to grow my herbs. Silence in winter, and in summer nothing but the birds. Lonely as the grave, and every bit as restful.”
― Mary Stewart, Thornyhold

“A los dieciocho años tenía todo tan claro. Creía que era valiente porque había desafiado a su familia. Creía que era inteligente porque leía a los griegos, porque aprendía latín, porque citaba a Derrida. Incluso antes, mucho antes de los dieciocho, a los diez, a los doce años, tenía un plan: hablar de otra manera, vivir de otra manera, pensar de otra manera, romper todos los espejos de la casa hasta olvidar alegremente, definitivamente su rostro.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno