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“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Hearts are wild creatures, that's why our ribs are cages.”
― Elalusz

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A lo mejor estamos siempre acumulando nuevos yoes. Sumando personalidades a medida que tomamos decisiones, buenas y malas, que metemos la pata o progresamos, que perdemos la cabeza y recuperamos el sentido, que nos hundimos, nos enamoramos, lloramos a un ser querido, crecemos, nos apartamos del mundo o lo agarramos por los cuernos, a medida que creamos cosas y las destruimos.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I don’t want the world. I want you,” Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“It wasn’t sexy,” he said.
“It was a little sexy,” Simon said…
“It wasn’t,” said Alec.
“I had some feelings,” said Simon.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Straight people,” Alec declared. “Why can’t they control themselves?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I grew on you, though," Jace stated confidently. "Eventually," Alec agreed. "Like moss, or a skin disease.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“What happens in the demon realms stays in the demon realms,” said Jace.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I don't want the world. I want you.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“No, I couldn’t,” Alec said. “I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I’m not attracted to every guy any more than you’re attracted to every girl.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Why not?” he said, abruptly. “Why not?” said Damen. “I don’t share your craven habit of hitting only those who cannot hit back, and I take no pleasure in hurting those weaker than myself.” Driven past reason, the words came out in his own language. Laurent,”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince

“He gathered the last of his strength to himself and said: “Do whatever you want to me. I’m not going to rape a child.” Laurent’s”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince

“ They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices  
A glance from him drives men to their knees
His sigh brings cities to ruin  
I wonder if he dreams of surrender
On a bed of white flowers  
Or is that the mistaken hope
Of every would-be conqueror?
The world was not made for beauty like his ”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“You’ve spent a morning with him and you’re warning me off. Just wait,’ said Damen, ‘until you’ve spent a full day with him.’
‘You mean that he improves with time?’
‘Not exactly,’ said Damen.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'

I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Every time I go back to Rome, I go back to that one spot. It is still alive for me, still resounds with something totally present, as though a heart stolen from a tale by Poe still throbbed under the ancient slate pavement to remind me that, here, I had finally encountered the life that was right for me but had failed to have.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
"I swear it," he echoed.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
"I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Yo no odio a nadie. Pero no voy a agachar la cabeza por el hecho de que los antepasados de tus reyes derrotaran a los míos.”
― África Ruh, La prisionera espartana

“Su burbuja de felicidad había colapsado y ahora solo quedaban los pedazos de una dicha que había sido tan absoluta como efímera.”
― Sandra Somera, No soy un ángel: Una historia de amor y venganza (Chicas de ciudad nº 1)

“Todos hemos perdido algo. La vida es ir perdiendo cosas, y añorándolas. Aunque en el camino vamos ganando otras.”
― Sandra Somera, No soy un ángel: Una historia de amor y venganza (Chicas de ciudad nº 1)

“La vida es demasiado corta para seguir siempre las buenas maneras.”
― Sandra Somera, No soy un ángel: Una historia de amor y venganza (Chicas de ciudad nº 1)