Veronica Perez > Veronica's Quotes

“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“...do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up in trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“the world doesn't give you things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“...Tal vez por esa experiencia en que la dicha se teñía de repente de dolor, yo ya debía haber entendido, repito, que nuestra felicidad está siempre en un equilibrio peligroso, inestable, a punto de resbalar por un precipicio de desolación.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“Hay un solo motivo por el que vale la pena perseguir algún dinero: para poder conservar y defender a toda costa la independencia mental, sin que nadie nos pueda someter a un chantaje laboral que nos impida ser lo que somos.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“La felicidad está hecha de una sustancia tan liviana que fácilmente se disuelve en el recuerdo, y si regresa a la memoria lo hace con sentimiento empalagoso que la contamina y que siempre he rechazado por inútil, por dulzón y en últimas por dañino para vivir el presente: la nostalgia.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“Y todavía hoy, si él estuviera vivo, lloraría al recordarla, tal como mi mamá no ha dejado de llorar, ni ninguno de nosotros, si lo vuelve a pensar, porque la vida, después de casos como este, no es otra cosa que una absurda tragedia sin sentido para la que no vale ningún consuelo.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“Los libros son un simulacro del recuerdo, una prótesis para recordar, un intento desesperado por hacer un poco más perdurable lo que es irremediablemente finito”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“Mi abuelo a veces comentaba sobre mí: «A este niño le falta mano dura». Pero mi papá le respondía: «Si le hace falta, para eso está la vida, que acaba dándonos duro a todos; para sufrir, la vida es más que suficiente, y yo no le voy a ayudar».”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“Es una de las paradojas más tristes de mi vida: casi todo lo que he escrito lo he escrito para alguien que no puede leerme, y estetismo libro no es otra cosa que la carta a una sombra.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“Ya somos el olvido que seremos.
El polvo elemental que nos ignora
y que fue el rojo Adán y que es ahora
todos los hombres y los que seremos.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Bajo el indiferente azul del cielo,
esta meditación es un consuelo.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Sonnets

“Visto en perspectiva, como el tiempo del recuerdo vivido es tan corto, si juzgamos sabiamente, ya somos el olvido que seremos, como decía Borges.”
― Héctor Abad Faciolince, El olvido que seremos

“That and the fact that, at least at first, Don Adler treated me like a person. There are people who see a beautiful flower and rush over to pick it. They want to hold it in their hands, they want to own it. They want the flower’s beauty to be theirs, to be within their possession, their control. Don wasn’t like that. At least, not at first. Don was happy to be near the flower, to look at the flower, to appreciate the flower simply *being*.

Here’s the thing about marrying a guy like that—a guy like Don Adler, back then. You’re saying to him, “This beautiful thing you’ve been happy to simply appreciate, well, now it’s yours to own.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“No matter your gender or sexual orientation, we all just want to be teased . - Evelyn Hugo”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I loved you so much, that I thought you were the meaning of my life," Celia said, crying. "I thought that people were put on Earth to find other people, and I was put on Earth to find you. To find you, and touch your skin, and smell your breath, and hear all your thoughts. But I don't think that's true anymore." She wiped her eyes. "Because I don't want to be meant for someone like you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I was fishing for information that might break my heart. A flaw of the human condition.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“And I started crying when I realized those men and women were willing to fight for a dream I had never even allowed myself to envision. A world where we could be ourselves, without fear and without shame. They were braver and more hopeful than I was. There were simply no other words for it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Life is very long unless it is not.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Why make anything if you don’t believe it could be great?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow