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  • #1
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #2
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #3
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #4
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Why is love intensified by absence?”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #5
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #6
    Isabel Allende
    “Write what should not be forgotten.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #7
    Isabel Allende
    “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
    Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

  • #8
    Isabel Allende
    “Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
    Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

  • #9
    Isabel Allende
    “Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #10
    Isabel Allende
    “She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.”
    Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

  • #11
    Isabel Allende
    “Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #12
    Isabel Allende
    “My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.”
    Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

  • #13
    Isabel Allende
    “She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.”
    Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

  • #14
    Isabel Allende
    “Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #15
    Isabel Allende
    “He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #16
    Isabel Allende
    “Lanzarme con otro libro es tan grave como enamorarme, un impulso alocado que exige dedicación fanática. Con cada uno, como ante un nuevo amor, me pregunto si me alcanzarán las fuerzas para escribirlo y si acaso semejante proyecto vale la pena: hay demasiadas páginas inútiles y demasiados amoríos frustrados.”
    Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

  • #17
    Laura Esquivel
    “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”
    Laura Esquivel

  • #19
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • #20
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #21
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #26
    “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
    Douglas McGrath

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #30
    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #31
    Haruki Murakami
    “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
    Murakami, Haruki



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