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“Estamos destinados a inventar nuestro destino, sin segundas oportunidades. Por eso los hombres nos equivocamos y nos defraudamos, y cometemos atrocidades, pero también, gracias a eso, podemos transformar nuestra vida, inventar sus contenidos.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética de urgencia

“A veces el Estado, con el pretexto de ayudar a los inválidos, termina por tratarlos como si fuesen inválidos.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética para Amador

“Tomarse las cosas con filosofía no quiere decir tomárselas con resignación, ni tampoco con gravedad, sino tomárselas alegremente.”
― Fernando Savater

“La muerte sirve para hacernos pensar, pero no sobre la muerte sino sobre la vida.”
― Fernando Savater, Las preguntas de la vida

“En lo único que a primera vista todos estamos de acuerdo, es que no estamos de acuerdo con todos.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética para Amador

“Créeme, las circunstancias nunca suelen ser favorables. No hay que depender de ellas. Lo importante es lo que uno siente, lo que uno quiere, lo que uno sabe. Tenemos que vivir a pesar de la realidad e incluso contra ella, sin esperar a que nos sea propicia como hacne los ilusos, o los cobardes.”
― Fernando Savater, Los invitados de la princesa

“Me explico: el melocotón nace melocotón, el leopardo viene ya al mundo como leopardo, pero el hombre no nace ya hombre del todo ni nunca llega a serlo si los demás no le ayudan.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética para Amador

“No queremos que nos encasillen en una de nuestras facetas, sobre todo si es de las peores. Queremos que nos den la oportunidad de demostrar que no nos correspondemos con lo que hicimos durante un día malo, que somos capaces de cosas mejores.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética de urgencia

“Las religiones también son como el vino: hay gente a la que le sienta mal y gente a la que le sienta bien.”
― Fernando Savater

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go- into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there, you're someplace else where there is blue sky and a road you don't recognize. If you squint your eyes, you think you see him, in the shadows, beyond the trees. You always imagine that you see him, but he's never there. It's only his spirit, that's what's there beneath the bed when you kiss your husband, there when you send your daughter off to school. It's in your coffee cup, your bathwater, your tears. Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.”
― Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face.
My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”
― Alice Hoffman, Incantation

“Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

“Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.”
― Alice Hoffman, Incantation

“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.”
― Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

“Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone? ”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

“Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.”
― Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

“If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia