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C. JoyBell C.
“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
C. JoyBell C.

Gena Showalter
“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness

Roy T. Bennett
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Milan Kundera
“Tamina serves coffee and calvados to the customers (there aren't all that many, the room being always half empty) and then goes back behind the bar. Almost always there is someone sitting on a barstool, trying to talk to her. Everyone likes Tamina. Because she knows how to listen to people.

But is she really listening? Or is she merely looking at them so attentively, so silently? I don't know, and it's not very important. What matters is that she doesn't interrupt anyone. You know what happens when two people talk. One of them speaks and the other breaks in: "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." and starts talking about himself until the first one manages to slip back in with his own "It's absolutely the same with me, I..."

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others. The whole secret of Tamina's popularity is that she has no desire to talk about herself. She submits to the forces occupying her ear, never saying: "It's absolutely the same with me, I...”
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
“Es un país de aventuras vegetales el mío; lo más importante que pasa le pasa a la semilla, sucede sordo y a ciegas, sucede en ese barro primordial del que vendríamos y al que vamos seguro: se hincha de humedad la semilla en la negrura, esquiva cuises y vizcachas, se rompe en tallo, en hoja verde, atraviesa la entraña, emerge todavía munida de sus dos cotiledones hasta que logra extraer la fuerza suficiente del sol y del agua como para dejarlos caer y ahí aparece la vaca y se la come a la hierbita esa que le nació al suelo y se reproduce, la vaca, y se multiplica lenta y segura en generaciones de animales que van a parar, casi todos, al degüello y cae la sangre al suelo de las semillas y los huesos le construyen un esqueleto de delicias para caranchos y lombrices y la carne viaja en los barcos frigoríficos hasta Inglaterra, otra vena, una cruenta y helada, de esa trama que va de todas partes al centro, al corazón voraz del imperio. Lo nuestro es lo de la matriz. Procesos sordos, ciegos, ya lo dije, primordiales, invisibles, ligados al magma de todos los principios y todos los fines. Lo de Inglaterra es otra cosa. Es la isla del hierro y del vapor, la de la inteligencia, la que se construye sobre el trabajo de los hombres y no sobre el de la tierra y la carne.”
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron

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