Maddy

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Los actores son gentes dichosas. Pueden elegir entre representar la tragedia o la comedia, el dolor o la diversión; entre hacer reír o hacer llorar. Pero en la vida real es muy distinto. Infinidad de hombres y mujeres se ven obligados a representar papeles para los cuales no estaban designados. [...] El mundo es un escenario, pero la obra tiene un reparto deplorable.

(El crimen de lord Arthur Savile)”
― Oscar Wilde, Cuentos completos Oscar Wilde

“Today many people, especially the young, think it was only America that defeated Hitler. Little is known about the price the Soviet people paid for the victory—twenty million human lives in four years.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

“In life there are wounds that, like leprosy, silently scrape at and consume the soul, in solitude—”
― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl