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

“Não ler, pensei, era como fechar os olhos, fechar os ouvidos, perder sentidos. As pessoas que não liam não tinham sentidos. Andavam como sem ver, sem ouvir, sem falar. Não sabiam sequer o sabor das batatas. Só os livros explicavam tudo. As pessoas que não leem apagam-se no mapa de deus.”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, A Desumanização

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places