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"Οι πέντε κίνδυνοι που με ανησυχούν περισσότερο είναι η απειλή μιας παγκόσμιας πανδημίας, μιας χρηματοπιστωτικής κατάρρευσης, ενός παγκοσμίου πολέμου, της κλιματικής αλλαγής και της ακραίας φτώχειας."
Hans Rosling, 2017

Τα τέσσερα πιο κοινά χημικά ενεργά στοιχεία του Σύμπαντος είναι επίσης τα πιο κοινά στοιχεία της ζωής στη Γη. Δεν ζούμε απλώς μέσα στο Σύμπαν. Το Σύμπαν ζει μέσα μας.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Jus' let me get out to California where I can pick me an orange when I want it. Or grapes. There's a thing I ain't never had enough of. Gonna get me a whole big bunch a grapes off a bush, or whatever, an' I'm gonna squash 'em on my face an' let 'em run offen my chin."

"How remarkable that the human race valued the lives of its individual members sufficiently to commemorate each one's brief time on the ancient earth; and yet, at once, could engage in slaughter of the most meaningless and general kind."

"...there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official cencors, judges, and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me."

"Durch die Wand wurde ich gezwungen, ein ganz neues Leben zu beginnen, aber was mich wirklich berührt, ist immer noch das gleiche wie früher: Geburt, Tod, die Jahreszeiten, Wachstum und Verfall. Die Wand ist ein Ding, das weder tot noch lebendig ist, sie geht mich in Wahrheit nichts an, und deshalb träume ich nicht von ihr."

«Sacha was my friend. I shouldn’t have any feelings for him, much less possessive feelings, but I did. They were just buried deep down in the back of my head, obviously, because I’d been swimming in a river called Da Nile.»

«If a scientist could figure out how to align the heart with the brain, there would be very little agony left in the world.»

"Even if it wasn’t too soon, I still wouldn’t want to be your rebound."

«While Louie might be the sun, Josh was the moon and the stars. He was my gravity, my tide, my ride or die. He was more like my little brother than my nephew, and in some ways, we had grown up together. I had loved him from the moment I laid eyes on him. Loved him from the moment I knew he was a spark of life, and I was going to love him every day of my life.»

«He kisses me like he’s giving me every kiss he wishes he could have given me in the past, and every kiss he’ll wish he could give me in the future. All of them, all at once.»

«She glances away, either to hide that this confession bothered her or to hide that she’s still trying to decipher me through the confession. She glances at some of the paintings closest to us so that she’s not looking directly at me anymore. We’re playing a game of hide-and-seek and the paintings are home base, apparently.»

«Fuck all the firsts, Sky. The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.»

«Why do guys get to be so free and stupid? Why do we giggle, as if we’d unexpectedly landed onstage? We pretend we’re afraid when we’re not. We pretend we’re unafraid when we are.»

Όταν η Σαντφλερί έμαθε τα φοβερά αυτά νέα, δεν έκλαψε· ανοιγόκλεισε μονάχα τα χείλη της, σαν να 'θελε να μιλήσει, αλλά δεν έβγαλε λέξη. Την επομένη, τα μαλλιά της είχαν ασπρίσει. Τη μεθεπομένη, είχε εξαφανιστεί.

«All I know is that I am falling in love with him. Every second, every minute, every day. It’s terrifying but it’s real. It’s the worst of my fears with the best of my dreams. And beneath it all is the inevitable crash. Because at the end of the day, whether I love him or he loves me, only one fact remains:
I can’t stay here.»

«As the sun dips low on the horizon, heading for the golden sea, we race it on the hydrofoil home. Annabella rests her head on one of my shoulders and Alfonso does the same on my other. Soon they are fast asleep, and I’m feeling a bit like the Grinch did when his heart grew by three sizes.»

«And I do feel anchored. I feel protected and warm. And though I know he wasn’t smelling my hair earlier, I’m inhaling the fuck out of him because honestly I can’t get enough»

«You,” he says, pushing the hair back from my face. “A funny, sweet, vulnerable little girl who hides from the world under a big sheet of ice. That’s who I found. That’s who I want. That’s who I have. The artist, the poet, the dreamer, the risk-taker. The lover.ς

«There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child—you grow up knowing you aren’t allowed to disappoint, you’re not even allowed to die. There isn’t a replacement toddling around; you’re it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made.»

«He promised to take care of me, and yet I feel afraid. I feel like something is going wrong, very wrong, and that it will get even worse. I don’t feel like Nick’s wife. I don’t feel like a person at all (...) I don’t feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.»

«You know what, Gwen? You might be okay, for a total geek with absolutely no fashion sense.»

«And that made my heart ache, too—the thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.»

«I can’t hold on to you. You’re like that shooting star. Just a trail of fire in my hands.”
And the Oscar goes to Evan Wilke, for putting the first fine, hairline crack in the ruby of my heart.»

«Her pride didn't just sting, it twisted in contortions. She wanted to crack her shell open, show him the full power of her mind, and scream, "Look at me!»

«Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.»

"That was everything. I'd done the lot, now. And me still only fifteen."