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“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”
― Virginia Woolf , A Room of One’s Own

“You should hate me," she said brokenly. "You should leave me—"
"Hush." His grip tightened, just short of bruising her. "Do you think so little of me? Damn you." He crushed his lips in her hair. "You don't understand anything about me. Did you think I wouldn't want to help you? That I would abandon you if I knew?"
"Yes," she whispered.
"Damn you," he repeated, his voice choked with anger and love. He forced her face upward. The hopelessness in her eyes caused a cold pressure to squeeze around his heart.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Then Came You

“We think of ourselves as creatures marked by a particular intelligence. But one of our finest features is the inability of our expectation to truly simulate the experience we are expecting. Our anticipation of joy is never the same as joy. Our anticipation of pain is never the same as pain. Our anticipation of challenge is in no way the same experience as the challenge itself. If we could feel the things we fear ahead of time, we would be traumatized. So instead we venture out thinking we know how things will feel, but knowing nothing of how things will really feel.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Pequeña Helena, la magia no es negra, ni blanca, sino del color el corazón de quien la utiliza.
(Salvación)”
― Eva M. Soler e Idoia Amo

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Siempre he creído que existe una técnica muy sencilla a la hora de poder descubrir si la persona que está a tu lado es de verdad tu media naranja. El truco está en el tiempo. Lo sabes cuando, al estar con él, los días se transforman en horas, las horas en minutos y los minutos en segundos. Aunque sea científicamente imposible, el tiempo avanza a una velocidad diferente que cuando estás con otras personas. Todo pasa más rápido y no importa de cuánto dispongas, porque nunca parece suficiente, no llegas a sentirte jamás del todo satisfecho, siempre necesitas un poquito más y no estás dispuesto a conformarte.”
― Alice Kellen, Otra vez tú

“Tiempo después llegué a pensar que fue cosa de magia. Que, aquel día, cuando pasé por tu lado en esa calle, alguien nos lanzó un hilo invisible que nos conectó a los dos y nos mantuvo sujetos con fuerza.”
― Alice Kellen, El chico que dibujaba constelaciones