Majo

“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

“It’s a common mistake to assume that someone is weak because they are accommodating. If you think this, you might be the type who has no idea how much effort—how much strength—it takes to put up with your nonsense.”
― 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