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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Weren't your friends the family you got to choose?”
― Karen Swan, Christmas at Tiffany's

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Celaena’s scream was still echoing through the passageway as Chaol leapt off the stairs and hurtled through the misty portal after Fleetfoot.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“Aus Erfahrung weiß Loreen bereits, dass die schlimmen Dinge meist plötzlich passieren, ohne Vorwarnung. Aber dabei vergisst man oft, dass manchmal auch die guten Dinge wie aus dem Nichts geschehen.
(Loreen)”
― Martina Riemer, Essenz der Götter II

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Without Scripture, our words would be without meaning!”
― Mary Kate

“Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
― Dang Thuy Tram

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Un hogar se construye a partir de nuestras experiencias, de la gente que nos encontramos por el camino y sobre todo de la forma en que decidimos avanzar por la vida. La vida es movimiento. Un equilibrio inestable que puede cambiar en cualquier instante.”
― Miquel Reina, Luces en el Mar

“No es bueno dejarse arrastrar por los sueños y olvidarse de vivir, recuérdalo.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Escribir es como besar, pero sin labios. Escribir es besar con la mente.”
― Daniel Glattauer, Gut gegen Nordwind

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Creemos en los actos cotidianos de valentía, en el coraje que impulsa a una persona a defender a otra.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“El humor es tu brújula y tu escudo. Puedes afilarlo para convertirlo en un arma o arrancarle hebras para tejerte una colcha mullida. No se puede subsistir a base de humor, pero sin él, tampoco.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“El hombre martirizado por sus demonios se venga ciegamente en su prójimo”
― Franz Kafka

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Alguien dijo que una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has dejado de quererle para siempre.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller