Alejandro Garzón > Alejandro's Quotes

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed."
"He is hope."
The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“My dear friend,"Breeze replied, "the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics ?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“¿Quién puede detener a un hombre, de cualquier edad—reflexiono ahora—cuando ha decidido terminar con su vida?”
― Piedad Bonnett, Lo que no tiene nombre

“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“como ha dejado claro Virginia Woolf, cuando sufres un trastorno mental, lo primero que te es arrebatado es la palabra. Y con esto llegamos al núcleo abrasador de lo que llamamos locura. Estar loco es, sobre todo, estar solo. Pero estoy hablando de una soledad descomunal, de algo que no se parece en absoluto a lo que entendemos cuando decimos la palabra soledad.”
― Rosa Montero, El peligro de estar cuerda

“Qué saben ellos de las horas perdidas intentando dominar el dificil arte de la transparencia y del deslumbramiento. "Somos como un atardecer sin lentes de sol", decía La Tía Encarna. "Nuestro fulgor enceguece, ofusca, a los que nos miran y los asusta".”
― Camila Sosa Villada, Las malas

“«Tenés derecho a ser feliz», nos decía La Tía Encarna desde su sillón en el patio. «La posibilidad de ser feliz también existe».”
― Camila Sosa Villada, Las malas

“Todo puede ser tan hermoso, todo puede ser tan fértil, tan imprevisible, cuesta creer que sea obra de algún dios. El lenguaje es mío. Es mi derecho, me corresponde una parte de él. Vino a mí, yo no lo busqué, por lo tanto, es mío. Me lo heredó mi madre, lo despilfarró mi padre. Voy a destruirlo, a enfermarlo, a confundirlo, a incomodarlo, voy a desplazarlo y a hacerlo renacer tantas veces como sean necesarias, un renacimiento por cada cosa bien hecha en este mundo.”
― Camila Sosa Villada, Las malas

“Se trataba de mendigar amor, ese monstruo espantoso. Todo se reducía, en el fondo, a la fiebre del amor. Pedir amor, suplicarlo de mil maneras, con las astucias más egoístas y más falsas que se pudiera concebir, todo valía.”
― Camila Sosa Villada, Las malas

“I am writing about my father in the past tense, and I cannot believe I am writing about my father in the past tense.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“El hombre nunca puede saber qué debe querer, porque vive sólo una vida y no tiene modo de compararla con sus vidas precedentes ni de enmendarla en sus vidas posteriores.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“El amor empieza por una metafora. Dicho de otro modo; el amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.”
― Milan kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Pero es precisamente el débil quien tiene que ser fuerte y saber marcharse cuando el fuerte es demasiado débil para ser capaz de hacerle daño al débil.”
― Milan Kundera,

“La verdadera prueba de la moralidad de la humanidad, la más honda (situada a tal profundidad que escapa a nuestra percepción), radica en su relación con aquellos que están a su merced: los animales”
― Milan Kundera

“Es posible que no seamos capaces de amar precisamente porque deseamos ser amados, porque queremos que el otro nos dé algo (amor), en lugar de aproximarnos a él sin exigencias y querer sólo su mera presencia”
― Milan Kundera

“Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían? sino: ¿es inocente un hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?”
― Milan Kundera, L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être

“Cuando las pruebas se hicieron demasiado evidentes, procuró demostrar que su poligamia no era en absoluto contradictoria con su amor por ella.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works. Work and pay bills, use dental floss and get to meetings on time, stand in line and fill out forms, come to grips with cables and put furniture together, change tires on the car and charge the phone and switch the coffee machine off and not forget to sign the kids up for swimming lessons. We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of "Don't Forget!"s and "Remember!"s over us. We don't have time to think or breathe, we just wake up and start digging through the heap, because there will be another one dumped on us tomorrow. We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents' meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they're doing. We're the only ones who have to pretend. Everyone else can afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal with even more stuff. And everyone else's children can swim.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People