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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
― Albert Einstein

“Ти си като този пръстен: рядък и скъп накит. И като него, можеш да бъдеш оценен само от истинския познавач. Защо си тръгнал да искаш всеки да види истинската ти стойност?”
― Jorge Bucay, Déjame que te cuente

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“Предлагам да се организира един курс в салона на читалището за квалификация на мъжете... Ще докараме коча да видят обноски...”
― Николай Хайтов, Диви разкази

“Сигурно за това на ненормалните им е трудно да се срещат с някого, не защото им хлопа дъската, а защото е трудно да намериш някого, готов да се среща с толкова много хора в един човек.”
― Елиф Шафак

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.”
― Erich Fromm

“Е, тука не мога да се въздържа да не извикам: аман от освободители!
Тръгне ли една държава да завладява друга държава, тя непременно
обявява, че отива да я освобождава. Така Александър Велики освободи почти целия свят, римляните освободиха траките така, че помен от тях не остана, Наполеон освободи цяла Европа,
Хитлер тръгна да освобождава Съветския съюз от комунизма, Сталин пък
освободи Германия от фашизма, византийците ни освободиха от руснаците през 971 година и два века влачихме ярема на тази свобода, руснаците пък ни освободиха незнайно от
кого през 1944 година и то така хубаво ни освободиха, че едвам се
освободихме от свободата им... Напоследък пък американците тръгнаха да освобождават света - освободиха
Виетнам, съвсем наскоро - в края на миналия век - освободиха Югославия и
тя, горката, още не може да се съвземе от това освобождение; сега
освобождават Ирак, горко му!...
Въобще, прав се оказва Дяконът Левски като казва: „Който ни освободи, ще
ни пороби, казвам ви!" - тези думи ние, българите, дето все чакаме някой
да ни освободи, трябва да си ги запишем с нож на челото...
Затова - тръгне ли някой да те освобождава, народе мой, грабвай оръжието
и се защитавай до последна капка кръв!”
― Стефан Цанев, Български хроники, том 1

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

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane