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“Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”
― Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts

“En malas manos, una moneda es tan peligrosa como una espada.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.”
― Joe Hill

“De un extraño te puedes apartar, pero de ti mismo no.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Soy mi propio campeón, mi propio bufón y mi propio arpista.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“El monstruo nunca muere.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“El enemigo al que no se ve es siempre el más temible.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Cuando la gente se muere de hambre, no ve con buenos ojos a los sacerdotes que están tan gordos que no pueden caminar.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“A un sapo le salen alas y ya cree que es un dragón.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Los libros están para recordarnos lo tontos y estúpidos que fuimos.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.”
― Stephen King, UR

“UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.”
― Stephen King, UR

“The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best to just shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“There were no ghosts. Only memory.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story