Majo

“Why do we tell stories? They are a universal human experience. Every culture I’ve ever visited, every people I’ve met, every human on every planet in every situation I’ve seen…they all tell stories. Men trapped alone for years tell them to themselves. Ancients leave them painted on the walls. Women whisper them to their babies. Stories explain us. You want to define what makes a human different from an animal? I can do it in one word or a hundred thousand. Sad stories. Exultant stories. Didactic morality tales. Frivolous yarns that, paradoxically, carry too much meaning. We need stories.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

“Si la lectura del libro, —o la contemplación del lienzo y del mármol— os produce una sensación de agrado, o de alegría; si involuntariamente exclamáis, ¡qué lindo! Tened por seguro que la obra es bella y, por tanto, poética. Si no podéis abandonar el drama o la novela, y vuestros dedos de marfil y rosa vuelven y vuelven una página tras otra para que las devoren los ojos hechizados, ¡ah! entonces, el autor acertó a ser interesante, lo que es un gran mérito y un triunfo. Si el corazón os late más deprisa, si un suspiro se os escapa, si una lágrima rueda sobre el libro, si lo cerráis y os quedáis pensativa, ¡ah! entonces, bella lectora, no os quepa duda, por allí ha pasado un alma poética derramando el nardo penetrante de su sentimiento.”
― Rubén Darío, Azul...

“It’s said that everything you eat, even the air you breathe, becomes part of you. The axi that make up the matter you take in come to make up you instead. I, however, find that the moments we take into our souls as memories are far more important than what we eat. We need those moments as surely as the air, and they linger. Potent. Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter