Janett Morales > Janett's Quotes

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wants her hand?” asked Thor hopefully. She had two hands, after all, and might be persuaded to give up one of them without too much of an argument. Tyr had, after all. “All of her,” said Loki. “He wants to marry her.” “Oh,” said Thor. “She won't like that.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“The fun comes in telling them yourself—something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this. Read the stories in this book, then make them your own,”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You’ll see.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“And the game begins anew.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“«Los poetas levantan castillos en el aire, los locos los habitan, y alguien, en la vida real, cobra el alquiler».”
― Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Kafka y la muñeca viajera

“¿Salvar a una niña no era como salvar el mundo?”
― Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Kafka y la muñeca viajera

“La relación de una niña con su muñeca es de las más fuertes del universo. Una fuerza descomunal movida por una energía tremenda.”
― Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Kafka y la muñeca viajera

“Uno se hace hombre, se hace más humano, cuando tiene su propia biblioteca, aunque sea de un solo libro.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“El libro es jardín que se puede llevar en el bolsillo, nave espacial que viaja en la mochila, arma para enfrentar las mejores batallas y afrentar a los peores enemigos, semilla de libertad, pañuelo para las lágrimas. El libro es cama mullida y cama de clavos, el libro te obliga a pensar, a sonreír, a llorar, a enojarte ante lo injusto y aplaudir la venganza de los justos. El libro es comida, techo, asiento, ropa que me arropa, boca que besa mi boca. Lugar que contiene el universo.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“Las cicatrices son muy importantes, hay que lucirlas con orgullo, porque cada una, pequeña o grande, cuenta una historia, tan pequeña o grande como quieras.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“Somos lo que hemos leído por el contrario seremos la ausencia que los libros dejaron en nuestras vidas.”
― Benito Taibo

“Hogar es sinónimo no de casa sino de calidez, de ternura, de refugio, de ventana para mirar al mundo y la lluvia sin que ésta te moje.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal

“- Era mi biblioteca. Ahora es tuya. Sólo tuya.
Tengo ganas de llorar y me aguanto. Sé cuánto ama sus libros. Mis libros. Me estaba regalando la imaginación, la pasión, la aventura, los pensamientos de otros, sus sueños, sus desgracias, sus anhelos. Ahora también son míos.
Uno se hace hombre, se hace más humano, cuando tiene su propia biblioteca, aunque sea un solo libro.
Tengo mi lanza masai, mi Bar Mitzvá, mi rito de iniciación aborigen, mi diario, mi pluma de halcón. Tengo origen y destino. Ya lo tengo todo. Me queda claro.”
― Benito Taibo, Persona normal