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“Porque Dulkacenllin era uno de los que había nacido donde debieron nacer diez.”
― Liliana Bodoc

“Toda criatura se cansa un día de cruzar ríos; entonces pide reposo. Pero no sé de ninguna criatura que se canse de amar, y pida odio.”
― Liliana Bodoc, Los días de la sombra

“Les enseñaron que por un instante de dolor permanecerían intactas en la eternidad. Sin embargo sus corazones deseaban seguir latiendo allí: en ese mundo donde nada era puro, pero todo era bello.”
― Liliana Bodoc, Los días de la sombra

“No es tan grande prestigio como cree la gente simple, a cada rato nacen chicos con los ojos abiertos, aunque hay que reconocer que en general vienen al mundo con los ojos sensatamente cerrados.”
― Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

“Quienes crecieron a su par habían muerto años atrás, mientras que ella seguía recorriendo el bosque.
-Me dejaron aquí olvidada –decía Kush cada vez que se hablaba del asunto- Y debe ser porque no hago ruido.”
― Liliana Bodoc, Los días del venado

“Cuando la distancia que te separa de tu propia hamaca puede medirse en cosechas, la mano de un amigo es buen consuelo.”
― Liliana Bodoc

“You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch

“Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch

“The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“-"Do you know what it's like to be condemned to love?"

-"But isn't it always like that?" Svetlana asked, trembling with indignation. "When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny!"

Once again I sensed that infinitely naive girl in her, the girl who couldn't hate anything except herself. The girl who was already beginning to disappear.

-"No, Sveta, haven't you ever heard love compared to a flower?"

-"Yes."

-"A flower can be grown, Sveta. But it can be bought too, or given as a gift."

-"Did Anton buy it?"

-"No," I said, a bit too sharply. "It was a gift. From destiny."

-"What difference does that make? If it is love?"

-"Sveta, cut flowers are beautiful, but they don't live for long. They're already dying, even the ones that are carefully placed in a crystal vase and given fresh water.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

~ Sherlock Holmes”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“He visto últimamente demasiados intelectuales. Estoy harto ya de esos genios insignes que tienen que soltar diamantes cada vez que abren la boca. Estoy harto de luchar por cada espacio de aire libre para la mente. Por eso estuve apartado de todos tanto tiempo, y ahora, al volver a ver a la gente, descubro que debo volver a mi cueva, hay otras cosas además de la mente: hay insectos, y palmeras y pimenteros de mesa, y yo tendré un pimentero de mesa en mi cueva, para reírme.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
― Julio Cortazar, Rayuela

“...Y mirá que apenas nos conocíamos y ya la vida urdía lo necesario para desencontrarnos minuciosamente. Como no sabías disimular me di cuenta en seguida de que para verte como yo quería era necesario empezar por cerrar los ojos...”
― Julio Cortázar

“Demasiado tarde, siempre, porque aunque hiciéramos tantas veces el amor la felicidad tenía que ser otra cosa, algo quizá más triste que esta paz y este placer, un aire como de unicornio o isla, una caída interminable en la inmovilidad”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“Si bien entiendo que el amor se sujeta al tiempo, veo que, al ponerse a prueba, también modera el tiempo de la chispa y el fuego de su ardor. En la misma llama del amor vive una especie de pabilo o pavesa que acaba por debilitarla. Nada existe que se mantenga constante en el mismo grado de bondad, pues esta, creciendo hasta la plétora, muere en su propio exceso. Lo que quisiéramos hacer, deberíamos hacerlo en el acto de quererlo, porque ese "querer" cambia y sufre tantas menguas y aplazamientos cuantos son los labios, las manos y las circunstancias por que atraviesa, y entonces ese "deber" vuélvase una especie de suspiro disipador, que hace daño al exhalarlo.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet