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“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Poate că iubirea e atunci când, după ce ai stins lumina la baie şi ţi-ai văzut ochii obosiţi în oglindă, alţi ochi îi privesc pe ai tăi de undeva din întunericul apropiat. Şi eşti împăcat cu asta şi nu mai tânjeşti după nimic altceva. Poate că iubirea e când nu-ţi mai eşti ţie în oglindă.”
― Tudor Chirilă, Exerciţii de echilibru

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I dislike the phrase “Internet friends,” because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.”
― John Green