#literary quotes
Sappho fragment 20
“Los libros que amamos nos aman a nosotros. Igual que nosotros dejamos nuestra señal en sus páginas, esas páginas dejan su señal en nosotros.”
Nuncanoche, Jay Kristoff
Encontré esta imagen en Facebook, realmente no sé a quién darle créditos. Pero el mensaje me pareció muy lindo.
Por eso la literatura es tan fascinante. Siempre está abierta a interpretación, y podría ser cien cosas distintas para cien personas distintas. Nunca es lo mismo dos veces.
Snow like ashes, Sara Raasch
No olvides que te espero, no esperes que te olvide.
Charles Dickens
The thoughts are destroying me, the silence is deadly.
I still feel the pain of how silly it was to think we could stand against time.
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.”
—Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly by Ursula Le Guin
“But easier, she reminded herself, was not the same as better.”
- Frances Hardinge
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” –Cormac McCarthy (THE ROAD)
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“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” –Ralph Ellison (INVISIBLE MAN)
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan W. Watts (The Wisdom of Insecurity)
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“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” –Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
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“I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all my reason, and any good sense.” – Kaitlyn Greenidge (We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel)
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“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” –Haruki Murakami, (Kafka on the Shore)
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“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” – Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” –Bram Stroker (Dracula)
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“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” – Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” J.D. Salinger (A Girl I Knew)
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“There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.” –John Steinbeck (East of Eden)
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“For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
