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“Creo que perder es, en cierta medida, algo difícil de evitar. Una persona, sea quien sea, no puede ganar siempre. En la autopista de la vida no es posible circular siempre por el carril de adelantamiento. A pesar de todo, no quiero caer varias veces en el mismo error. Quiero aprender algo de ese error y aprovechar la lección aprendida para la siguiente ocasión.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
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“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
Petra’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Petra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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84 books
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60 friends
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