Samantha Pantoja > Samantha's Quotes

“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?

There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda. You compose a mass e-mail disowning all your sucias. You block their e-mails. You change your phone number. You stop drinking. You stop smoking. You claim you’re a sex addict and start attending meetings. You blame your father. You blame your mother. You blame the patriarchy. You blame Santo Domingo. You find a therapist. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. You start taking salsa classes like you always swore you would so that the two of you could dance together. You claim that you were sick, you claim that you were weak—It was the book! It was the pressure!—and every hour like clockwork you say that you’re so so sorry. You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more, and, Ya, and you will have to move from the Harlem apartment that you two have shared. You consider not going. You consider a squat protest. In fact, you say won’t go. But in the end you do.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

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

“Todo fracaso comienza con la luz, con el deseo de atrapar la luz para siempre.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me verá llorar

“—No tienes que hacer todo esto, lo sabes, ¿verdad? El cuarto que debes limpiar está detrás de tus ojos, dentro de tu cabeza. Las mujeres deben entrar al cielo con libros, con música, no con escobas y trapos viejos, damita. Ponte lista.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me verá llorar

“El futuro es una escalera infinita.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me verá llorar

“Maldigo tus ojos que no saben ver.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me verá llorar

“-El aire -le dice-, el aire es de color azul. El horizonte una línea que corta el corazón en dos. Un halcón.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me verá llorar

“El amor no se puede contar. El amor es inicuo. Está hecho de gestos anodinos y costumbres difíciles de cambiar. El amor es los años que pasan uno tras otro sin variar. En el desierto, el amor es una planicie donde no crece nada, una mina que escupe plata de cuando en cuando, un párroco que se muere, la falta de agua. El amor es lo que hay bajo la lengua cuando se seca y a un lado de los pasos cuando no se oyen. El amor es un sauce a las orillas del cementerio de Venado y las ruinas abiertas del edificio del Diezmo a un lado del Palacio Municipal. El amor es una tonadilla, apenas una canción.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me verá llorar

“Ni mak' liti cac' xilam
coxo pam' ca qui nacu

(Cada vez que te veo
salta mi corazón)

Goyo Ja”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Nadie me verá llorar

“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

“...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

“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

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett

“Y puede, puede así, que las muertes no sean to­das iguales. Puede que hasta después de la muerte, todos sigamos distintos caminos.”
― Maria Luisa Bombal, La amortajada

“Matamos lo que amamos, lo demas no ha estado vivo nunca.”
― Rosario Castellanos

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin