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“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
― Reinaldo Arenas

“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit. That's why you can't save it all up like that.

Because by the time you finally see each other, you're catching up only on the big things, because it's too much bother to tell about the little things. But the little things are what make up life.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“Palavras, às vezes,
podem ter um efeito
muito maior sobre um
coração do que um beijo.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“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

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Love is a dream, then you wake up”
― Lucy Keating, Dreamology: A Love Story

“Pick a side, Max. I feel like I'm living through some vampire romance where you can't be near me because my blood smells delicious.”
― Lucy Keating, Dreamology: A Love Story

“It surprises me, how a small gesture can feel so very big. How sometimes you don't realize the nervousness or sadness you were holding deep inside until the touch of someone you love lets it all out of you, like your entire body is exhaling.”
― Lucy Keating, Dreamology: A Love Story

“Our dreams are the one thing we share that nobody else can touch, And now we're going to lose it, and I am terrified.”
― Lucy Keating, Dreamology: A Love Story

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“When you have so little, just the smallest thing can make you happy”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“É muito difícil ir embora - até você ir embora de fato. E então ir embora se torna simplesmente a coisa mais fácil do mundo.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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

“Se não protegermos e cuidarmos umas das outras, não serão os homens que o farão por nós.”
― Pam Gonçalves, Boa Noite

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“History repeats, but science reverberates.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables