Malena

“what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed — instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?
no, i couldn't say any of this. because, when it ll comes down to it, nobody wants to hear it, no matter how much they like you or love you, they don't want to hear it.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“You die and then no one speaks of you, and before you know it, no one asks, no one tells, no one even knows or wants to know. You're extinct, you never lived, never loved. Time never casts shadows and memory doesn't drop ashes.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“My life has been defined by the things I didn't do. The things I didn't say. I think it's the same for a lot of people. What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Estaba dándole vueltas a esas ideas sobre el lenguaje y el pensamiento, sobre lo difícil que me resultaría expresarlas o tal vez no difícil sino fatigoso, como si pensarlas resultase redundante o inferior, pues todo el mundo sabe que la traducción simplifica las cosas, que siempre es mejor leer un libro en su lengua original [...] Las traducciones son meras aproximaciones subjetivas. Y eso es todo lo que experimento respecto a cuanto digo: no es lo que esto pensando sino lo máximo que puedo aproximarme a lo que pienso por medio del lenguaje, con sus defectuosas y constrictivas reducciones. Y por eso a menudo pienso que es mejor no decir nada que expresarme de una manera inexacta.”
― CAMERON PETER, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You