Sofía Castell > Sofía's Quotes

“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ”
― Mary Ellen Chase

“No quería dejar de hablar de amor para hablar de postres. Sólo quería dejar de hablar de amor para hacerlo.”
― Cristina Peri Rossi, El amor es una droga dura

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“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

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

“You are like nobody since I love you.”
― pablo neruda

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”
― Richard Brautigan

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
― Edith Wharton

“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
― Charles Dickens

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
― Charles M. Schulz