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“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“In short, we are all goin.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Incluso cuando se está condenado al fracaso, vale la pena poner en práctica todo lo que uno sabe, para que cuando llegue la derrota inevitable, uno tenga al menos la satisfacción de saber que hizo cuando estaba en su mano para evitarlo.”
― John Katzenbach, State of Mind

“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“How desperate she had been for a storybook ending, and a life to which Gaia would always want to return; because her daughter's departure was hurtling towards Kay like a meteorite, and she foresaw the loss of Gaia as a calamity that would shatter her world.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“A veces hago cosas de persona mayor, en serio, pero de eso nadie se da cuenta. La gente nunca se da cuenta de nada.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Si la chica es guapa, ¿a quién le importa que llegue tarde? Cuando aparece se le olvida a uno en seguida.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“¿Quién necesita flores cuando ya se ha muerto? Nadie.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“[...] Eso es lo que me gustaría hacer todo el tiempo. Vigilarlos. Yo sería el guardián entre el centeno.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“No odio a todos. Los odio unas cuantas horas o unos cuantos días, pero después se me pasa”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“¡Dios mío! ¡Cómo me fastidia que me digan «Buena suerte» cuando me voy de alguna parte! Es de lo más deprimente”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“¿Cómo sabe uno lo que va a hacer hasta que llega el momento? Es imposible. Yo creo que sí, pero, ¿cómo puedo saberlo con seguridad?”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“No cuenten nunca nada a nadie. En el momento en que uno cuenta cualquier cosa, empieza a echar de menos a todo el mundo.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Las personas que están en sus cabales no se enorgullecen de sus talentos”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final, pase lo que pase.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“And it’s more. It’s about getting past that question of whats
wrong with me, to knowing there’s nothing wrong, that you were born
this way. You're a normal person and a beautiful person and you
should be proud of who you are. You deserve to live and live with dignity
and show people your pride.”
― Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret

“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Rompí a llorar. Me encanta esa expresión. No se dice rompí a comer o rompí a caminar. Rompes a llorar o a reír. Creo que vale la pena hacerse añicos por esos sentimientos".”
― Albert Espinosa Todolo que podríamos haber sido tu y yo si no fuéramos tú y yo.

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska