Amanda Dávila

“Hay gente, débil, que le teme a la soledad; lo que no logran comprender es que en realidad tiene una parte muy liberadora: una vez que entiendes que no necesitas a nadie, puedes ocuparte de ti mismo. Ahí está el tema: es mejor ocuparse solamente de uno mismo. No puedes proteger a los demás, por mucho que te esfuerces. Lo intentas y lo intentas pero, cuando finalmente fracasas, se te cae el mundo encima y arde hasta reducirse a cenizas.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant está perfectamente

“What had she thought, that love was a toy, something easy and sweet, just to play with? Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn’t let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“If there was anything Vincent might have done to stop it he wouldn’t have done so, for this occurred only once in a person’s life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don’t know where you are. You are falling, you’re in a house you don’t recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous. In the aunts’ opinion, it could sneak up on a grown woman and turn her from a sensible creature into something as foolish as a flea that keeps chasing after the same old dog.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic