Sofía Aguerre > Sofía's Quotes

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“¿No os habéis despertado un día y os ha parecido que las cosas más rutinarias y sencillas representan todo un mundo? Os detenéis y os dais cuenta que no os veis capaces ni de abrir los ojos, y lo último que desearíais sería continuar como hasta ahora.”
― Estefania Alvarez, El Ocaso de Daphne

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“Nadie es libre. Todos somos esclavos los unos de los otros.”
― Scarlett de Pablo, Hilando historias

“No quiere que haya soñadores, ni creatividad, ni conocimiento. Por eso tenemos que salvarlos, por eso tenemos que enseñar a los que tienen miedo que hay vida más allá de lo que vemos.”
― María Martínez Viqueira, Hilando historias

“Al abrir los ojos, la única luz que la alejaba de las tinieblas era la luna.”
― Lorena Pacheco Fiérrez, Hilando historias

“Quiero abrazarla y estrecharla contra mi pecho, volver a reír y a jugar juntos, contarnos historias, columpiarnos cabeza abajo en las copas de los árboles... Pero estoy aquí por otros motivos.”
― Diana Martinez, Hilando historias

“Mi único consuelo era que los dioses nos odiaran a todos por igual, y que mi hermana supiera, al igual que yo, que la traición y la muerte son también hermanas.”
― María Ester Pablos de la Piedra, Hilando historias

“A papá y mamá les gusta que lea. Los libros son silenciosos. Los libros son amigos. Los libros no traicionan. Papá siempre repite eso. Yo no sé qué quiere decir, pero a él parece gustarle, así que yo le sonrío mientras repito con él. Esas palabras son mi cuento de antes de dormir.”
― Flor di Tieri, Hilando historias

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

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

“Dying is easy. Anyone can throw themselves onto the pyre and rest a happy martyr. Enduring the suffering that comes with sacrifice is the real test.”
― Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer

“Wait," he whispered.

But she didn't.”
― Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“We're all immortal until we die.”
― Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

“Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.”
― Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."

(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
― Gail Carriger

“A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier