Agustina

“What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! How impossible! Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it; everything was a lie. Every smile hid a yawn of boredom, every joy a curse, all pleasure satiety, and the sweetest kisses left upon your lips only the unattainable desire for a greater delight.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“He was a man who longed to do more with his life, to investigate creativity and originality, but was afraid of the disruption this indulgence might bring to a carefully regimented life.”
― John Katzenbach, The Analyst

“¿No ves que la finalidad de la neolengua es limitar el alcance del pensamiento, estrechar el radio de acción de la mente?”
― George Orwell, 1984