Bárbara Miranda > Bárbara's Quotes

“Para Amy, o amor era como drogas, álcool e pornografia: não havia limite. Cada exposiçao precisava ser mais intensa que a última para alcançar o mesmo resultado.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Observar o mundo de cima, e ficar a sós comigo mesmo. Aquilo, descobri, era do que eu precisava.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Eu entendo. As coisas que você mais quer, são aquelas que te destroem no fim.”
― John Green and David Levithan

“This is what I never allowed myself to need.
And of course I've been needing it all along.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“There’s no rule book that tells you how to act in every given situation in life, you know? So what I always say is that it’s always better to err on the side of kindness. That’s the secret. If you don’t know what to do, just be kind. You can’t go wrong.”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. —Ian Maclaren”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

“I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t see where we are going!”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.”
― Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon

“It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.”
― Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon

“Doubt is a great worm in a crispy, red apple.”
― Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon

“There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.”
― Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon

“He says nothing but I know he is listening. Words are the only medicine I have.
‘You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I’m lost. There’s no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn’t matter what happens now because I’ve found you. That’s why I’m here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother.”
― Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon

“He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?”
― Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon

“O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.”
― Machado de Assis

“Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

“Purifica o teu coração antes de permitires que o amor entre nele, pois até o mel mais doce azeda num recipiente sujo.”
― Machado de Assis, Contos

“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Christa Wolf, Kassandra

“Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Eu vou ser o Tordo.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“I promised him!" he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wrong. Almost insanity. "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner