Raisa

“El verdadero amor es asunto de almas, no de
cuerpos. Es por eso que los afectos que dependen de las formas físicas son transitorios. Aparecen unas arrugas, unos kilos de más o de menos y ya no hay más cariño. Eso no es amor, eso es una atracción magnética pasajera basada en lo externo, sin ninguna profundidad ni fuerza. Pero para el verdadero amor no existe estatura ni edad ni apariencia, es un asunto de alma a alma, es amar la energía que emana del otro, porque esa energía es el resumen de todo lo que esa persona es internamente. Para esa clase de sentimiento
no existen las distancias ni el tiempo. Ese amor no se extingue ni siquiera con la muerte.”
― Enrique Barrios, Ami 3: Civilizaciones Internas

“I feel an irrational craving to gaze at his familiar face from this place of safety all night. But I can't. And I'm being stupid, because this isn't old Joe, whom I loved and understood. This is new Joe, who is cruel and inexplicable. They only look the same.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.”
― Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

“I picked up his hands and examined them, then gripped his chin in a carefully businesslike way and looked into his eyes. I saw nothing peculiar--- no additional peculiarity, that is; his eyes have always been too green, a blackened green like leaves layered until no light can get through. I don't like to hold his gaze for long; not because I find it intimidating, but because a part of me worries that if I do, I will never wish to look away.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands