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“You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“La frase 'todo tiempo pasado fue mejor' no indica que antes sucedieran menos cosas malas, sino que -felizmente- la gente las echa en el olvido. ”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“A veces creo que nada tiene sentido. En un planeta minúsculo, que corre hacia la nada desde millones de años, nacemos en medio de dolores, crecemos, luchamos, nos enfermamos, sufrimos, hacemos sufrir, gritamos, morimos, mueren y otros están naciendo para volver a empezar la comedia inútil.”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Vivir consiste en construir futuros recuerdos.”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Generalmente, esa sensación de estar solo en el mundo aparece mezclada con un orgulloso sentimiento de superioridad: desprecio a los hombres, los veo sucios, feos, incapaces, ávidos, groseros, mezquinos; mi soledad no me asusta, es casi olímpica.”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Pero, ¿por qué esa manía de querer encontrar explicación a todos los actos de la vida?”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Que el mundo es horrible, es una verdad que no necesita demostración”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Existió una persona que podria entenderme. Pero fue, precisamente, la persona que maté.”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“Toda nuestra vida sería una serie de gritos anónimos en un desierto de astros indiferentes”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“Es común que en las noches de insomnio sea teóricamente más decidido que durante el día, en los hechos.”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“Yo, por ejemplo, me caracterizo por recordar los hechos malos y, así, casi podría decir que ''todo tiempo pasado fue peor'', si no fuera porque el presente me parece tan horrible como el pasado; recuerdo tantas calamidades, tantos rostros cínicos y crueles, tantas malas acciones, que la memoria es para mí como la temerosa luz que alumbra un sórdido museo de la vergüenza”
― Ernesto Sabato, El túnel

“A pesar de todo, el hombre tiene tanto apego a lo que existe, que prefiere finalmente soportar su imperfección y el dolor que causa su fealdad, antes que aniquilar la fantasmagoría con un acto de propia voluntad.”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“There had never been a death so foretold.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“La fatalidad nos hace invisibles”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cronaca di una morte annunciata

“Tenía una manera de hablar que más bien le servía para ocultar que para decir.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“También el amor se aprende”
― Gabriel García Marquez, Cronaca di una morte annunciata

“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's an extraordinary thought. It's mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can't see the universe for eye-liner. And there are probably boys whose eyes are never raised above the horizon because of football. There can be quite a chasm between a small make-up mirror and a proper mirror telescope! I think it's what they call a 'matter of perspective'. Perhaps it could also be called an 'eye-opener' as well. It's never too late to experience an eye-opener. But many people live their entire lives without realizing that they're floating through empty space.
There's too much going on down here. It's hard enough thinking about your looks.
We belong on this earth. I'm not trying to dispute it. We're part of nature's life on this planet. Monkeys and reptiles have shown us how we breed, and I have no quarrel with that. In different natural surroundings everything might have been very different, but here we are. And I repeat: I'm not denying it. I just don't think that prevent us from trying to see a little beyond the ends of our noses.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl