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"Brave doesn't mean you're not scared [...]. It means you go on even though you're scared."

"Ich küsse so ähnlich, wie ich schreibe."

"Man soll nie ans >>Verlieren << denken. Schon beim Denken daran verliert man."

"Schreiben ist wie küssen, nur ohne Lippen. Schreiben ist küssen mit dem Kopf."

"... The great charm of all power is modesty"

"There are many Beths in the world, shy & quiet, sitting in corners till needed, & living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, & the sweet, sunshine vanishes, leaving silence & shadow behind"

"We never are too old for this, it is a game we are playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, & the longing for goodness & happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles & mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City"

"love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift"

"to be alive is to be missing"

"You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame.... Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide on the frame."

" The problem with happy endings, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse."

"" You're everything, everything, everything, " & I felt that I was. You're both fire & the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, & the sidekick. You're the storyteller & the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also you."

"Life is a series of choices between wonders"

"every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really - just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body."

"I wondered why I wanted him to kiss me, and how to know why you want to be with someone, how to disentangle the messy knots of wanting"

"... I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name"

"It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see"

"It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you."

“...necesito que sepa que corro hacia ella pero al mismo tiempo necesito saber que ella corre hacia mí.”

“ En la vida hay cosas que se pueden encauzar, y otras que hay que aceptar como llegan. La vida es muchísimo más grande que nosotros. Es compleja, y también misteriosa...Lo único que siempre puede elegirse es amar. Amar sin condiciones.”

„Bien, bien, pero quiero más emoción ¿estamos? Quiero la vida, la de verdad. La rabia y la alegría. El pasado y el futuro. El calor y el frío. Das todo lo que tengáis. Y lo opuesto de cada cosa.”

“Era gratitud; gratitud por no sólo por haberla amado, sino por amarla todavía lo bastante para olvidar toda la petulancia y mordacidad de su rechazo y todas las injustas acusaciones que lo acompañaron.”
“Semejante cambio en un hombre tan orgulloso no sólo tenía que inspirar asombro, sino también gratitud, pues había que atribuirlo al amor, a un amor apasionado.”