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“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

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
― Tess Gallagher

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“La vida es una maldita enfermedad que a todos nos acaba matando.”
― Rosa Montero

“La razón posee una naturaleza pulcra y hacendosa y siempre se esfuerza por llenar de causas y efectos todos los misterios con los que se topa, al contrario de la imaginación (la loca de la casa, como la llamaba Santa Teresa de Jesús), que es pura desmesura y deslumbrante caos.”
― Rosa Montero, La loca de la casa

“Cuanto más te acercas a lo esencial, menos puedes nombrarlo.”
― Rosa Montero, La ridícula idea de no volver a verte

“Ni siquiera la pirámide más monumental es suficiente para defendernos de la muerte.”
― Rosa Montero, La ridícula idea de no volver a verte

“Todos estos libros, lo noto, me están cambiando por dentro. Yo no podía imaginarme que esto de leer era como vivir.”
― Rosa Montero, Historia del rey transparente

“I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“¡Y yo me llamé la Diosa!”
― Guadalupe Amor

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet”
― Joe Raposo

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“—Ese come todo lo que está a su paso y la muy sanguijuela no engorda.
—¿No dicen que los gorditos son más felices?
—No le veo nada de feliz a Juancito ahorita, David.”
― Veronica Villanueva Bejarano, Cuentos de medianoche

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre