Claudia

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“-¡Venga, deja de leer, que te vas a quedar sin vista!
-Más vale que salgas a jugar, hace un tiempo estupendo.
- ¡Apaga la luz! ¡Es tarde!
Sí, siempre hacía demasiado buen tiempo para leer, y de noche estaba demasiado oscuro.
Fijémonos en que se trata de leer o no leer, el verbo ya era conjugado en imperativo. En el pasado ocurría lo mismo. De manera que leer era entonces un acto subversivo. Al descubrimiento de la novela se añadía la excitación de la desobediencia familiar. ¡Doble esplendor! ¡Oh, el recuerdo de aquellas horas de lecturas clandestinas debajo de las mantas a la luz de la linterna eléctrica! ¡Qué veloz galopaba Ana Karenina hacia su Vronski a aquellas horas de la noche! ¡Ya era hermoso que aquellos dos se amaran, pero que se amaran en contra de la prohibición de leer todavía era más hermoso! Se amaban en contra de papá y mamá, se amaban en contra del deber de mates por terminar, en contra de la «redacción» que entregar, en contra de la habitación por ordenar, se amaban en lugar de sentarse a la mesa, se amaban antes del postre, se preferían al partido de fútbol y a la búsqueda de setas..., se habían elegido y se preferían a todo... ¡Dios mío, qué gran amor! y qué corta era la novela.”
― Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…”
― Timothy Leary