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MR. BROWNE’S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT: WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.
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“Estás triste, pero solo pareces enfadada. Aprenderás a decirlo: "Es que cuando estoy así necesito que me abracen". Pero da igual, porque legítimamente te lo rebaten: "Es que cuando estás así no dan ningunas ganas de abrazarte". No te ves, pero te pones muy bruta. Ya, ya lo sé, no sabes ponerte de otra forma, pero hay de tu piel para afuera agresividad, y tensión, y dureza, y si alguien comprendiera, si fueras simplemente capaz de transmitir que detrás de ese enfado te sientes tan frágil, tan pequeña, tan inútil. (...) Si vieras, si simplemente pudieras ver lo asertiva que pareces, lo segura que estás de todo cuando justamente ahora no estás segura de nada, cuando justamente ahora eres minúscula y débil, y estás triste. Ya lo sé, de verdad que ya lo sé: sé bien que necesitas que se te entienda. El otro se pone a la defensiva sin comprender - y qué infeliz te hace que no te compendan - que la indefensa, la desarmada aquí siempre eres tú.
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Lloras. Lloras de tristeza y ahora sí pareces pequeña y frágil y vulnerable, ahora sí parece que necesitas un abrazo. Pero si te vas a los confines solitarios del mundo cuando necesitas un abrazo no va a haber nadie para dártelo.”
― Los nombres propios
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Lloras. Lloras de tristeza y ahora sí pareces pequeña y frágil y vulnerable, ahora sí parece que necesitas un abrazo. Pero si te vas a los confines solitarios del mundo cuando necesitas un abrazo no va a haber nadie para dártelo.”
― Los nombres propios
“I feel like I could know you forever and still be curious about what you're going to say next.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“Em, I must confess—I am in awe of you. I believe I am also a little frightened.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“Don’t bother,” I said drily. “I don’t expect you to comprehend a guilty conscience. You’re going to strain something.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“Wendell half sat, half crouched in a hollow in the mountainside, one hand over his eyes, showing no interest whatsoever in our impossible surroundings, and I realized what was happening: somehow the poison had curdled the magic inside him, and any use of enchantment pained him.
I knelt at his side and wrapped my arms around his shoulders. “Is there anything I can do?”
“Yes,” he murmured. “Say that you’ll marry me.”
“God.” So he was well enough to tease me, at least—that was some relief. “Perhaps I will refuse you here and now. Disappointment in love may provide a welcome distraction from the poison.”
“Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
I knelt at his side and wrapped my arms around his shoulders. “Is there anything I can do?”
“Yes,” he murmured. “Say that you’ll marry me.”
“God.” So he was well enough to tease me, at least—that was some relief. “Perhaps I will refuse you here and now. Disappointment in love may provide a welcome distraction from the poison.”
“Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
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