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“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared."
(rough translation)”
― Marc Levy, If Only It Were True

“You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to become another person altogether to be able to take a hard look. Good people protect people they love, even if that means pretending that everything is okay.”
― Ron McLarty, The Memory of Running

“The longer you wait and put off the nice things you should do on a regular basis, the harder it is to do them, until finally you have to force yourself to be nice, to be thoughtful, and it isn’t easy, because you’re embarrassed about not having done those easy, nice things in a natural kind of way. Also, the people who you’re nice to come to expect your regular niceness. That’s it in a nutshell.”
― Ron McLarty, The Memory of Running

“Tutti abbiamo una ferita segreta per riscattare la quale combattiamo.”
― Italo Calvino, The Path to the Spiders' Nests

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Mi sento come un pezzo degli scacchi. Tipo il cavallo, che può muoversi solo a elle. Pure se lo sa che è una mossa di merda. Però è il turno suo, e le regole quelle sono.”
― Zerocalcare, Macerie prime

“Ecco, è in quei pomeriggi che si è cementata un'amicizia che dura ancora oggi. Un'amicizia tra potenzialità e talenti inespressi, tra crisalidi di belle speranze che non sono mai riuscite a trasformarsi in farfalle, che per tutti questi anni hanno continuato a correre, in quel campo di calcio infinito con le porte che sparivano dietro l'orizzonte. Oggi tu finalmente hai tirato in porta, Cinghiale. Un tiro a effetto a due piedi con Christine, tipo quello dei gemelli coi dentoni. E avete segnato. Ed è giusto che voi due festeggiate, perché questo gol è vostro. Ma oggi festeggiamo anche noi, perché noi restiamo sempre la tua squadra.”
― Zerocalcare, Macerie prime

“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
― Charles Dickens (David Copperfield), David Copperfield

“The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Janet! Donkeys!”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”
― Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men