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“¿No crees que estar solo es terriblemente duro a veces? ¿Alguna vez te encontraste hablando con una pared porque no tenías a nadie que te escuchara?”
― Kelly Wallace, Best Friends - Better Lovers

“Los chicos dirán cualquier cosa para obtener lo que quieren. Harán de todo para obtener lo que quieren. Te harán sentir como la única mujer para ellos. Te dirán que sus pelotas serán literalmente encogidas y se caerán si no les ayudas a atravesar su exceso de hormonas. No te atrevas a creer. Y no caigas hasta que estés segura de que estás enamorada. Amor. ¿entiendes? No curiosidad, no por placer, sino amor.”
― Kelly Wallace

“Él sonrió, tirando de la corbata de seda gris alrededor de su garganta, soltándola. Esa era la primera vez que había sido abofeteado por no tomar ventaja de una mujer.”
― Kelly Wallace, Best Friends - Better Lovers

“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Empiezo a correr. No sé adónde voy. Me pongo los

cascos para no tener que escuchar el runrún incesante

de mis pensamientos, para dejar atrás sus excusas

venenosas, susurradas entre el eco de las calles de

Dublín."
-Corazón de mariposa”
― Andrea Tomé, Corazón de mariposa

“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.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“You only like guys you don't have a chance with, because you're scared.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Margot would say she belongs to herself. Kitty would say she belongs to no one. And I guess I would say I belong to my sisters and my dad, but that won’t always be true. To belong to someone—I didn’t know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that’s all I’ve ever wanted. To really be somebody’s, and to have them be mine.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll never feel the same way?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“It’s fun to think of the what-if. Scary, but fun. It’s like, I thought this door was closed before, but here it is open just the tiniest crack. What if?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Relationships are incredibly amorphous. They could get back together. They could stay friends. Who's to say what will happen in the future?”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
― Helen Hooven Santmyer

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”
― Jim Harrison

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again