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“Tell you what, the worst part of growing up is how it shuts you up.”
― Stephen King, Later

“Es entonces cuando se da cuenta de que para ser un monstruo no es necesario hacer algo especial, a veces basta con no hacer absolutamente nada.”
― Eloy Moreno, Invisible

“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."
He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)”
― Rick Riordan

“What do you like to read?”
“Books.”
“What kind of books?”
“The kind with words.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“It’s no use resenting a thing that you’ve no power to stop.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“The accepted version of certain facts is not necessarily the true one.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe."
"You poked it with a stick?"
"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“She loves you, too,” Wendy said softly, and put a light squeeze on the back of Luke’s sunburned neck.
“Not the same way,” Luke said glumly, but then he smiled. “What the hell, life goes on.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“I think I might just go out back for awhile, and sit under that big tree. I feel empty inside. I never felt so empty.”
Tim nodded. “You’ll fill up again. Trust me.”
“I guess I’ll have to.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing.”
― Stephen King, Later

“I tell you what, there’s nothing like having a mother around when you’re thinking of scary shit.”
― Stephen King, Later

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies