No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y rodearme con los brazos. Solo un poco. Con un nudo en la garganta, me acerqué, me senté a su lado y la abracé. —Qué bien —dijo ella, más relajada—. Es como si hasta ahora siempre hubiera tenido frío.
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SYLVAIN REYNARD Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi... HERMANN HESSE Pero en esto yerran los jóvenes tan a menudo y tan gravemente. Ellos, en cuya naturaleza está el n... RAINER MARIA RILKE Heredé de mis antepasados las ansias de huir. Dicen que mi sangre es europea. Yo siento que cada gl... ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK La escuela debería seducir, enamorar. Ser ese escenario donde todos los días los alumnos al salir ... ANNA FORES ¿Qué más? Es preciosa. No te cansas de mirarla. No tienes que preocuparte de si es más inteligen... JOHN GREEN Hay libros que tenemos a nuestro lado veinte años sin leerlos, libros de los que no nos alejamos, q... ELIAS CANETTI Sentada enfrente de mis borradores, de repente me invadió el pánico como cuando un mago descubre q... ZHOU WEIHUI Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie e... HARUKI MURAKAMI Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista... JORGE LUIS BORGES Y escribir cada día, ganar la lotería de al menos una frase que nadie ha dicho nunc... HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE No está la muerte ni allí ni aquí, se alza en todos los senderos. Está en ti y está ... HERMANN HESSE Ahora me parece que no está solo el hombre. En sus manos ha elaborado como... PABLO NERUDA Yo no me callo Perdone el ciudadano esperanzado mi recuerdo de acciones miserables,<... PABLO NERUDA Cierro los ojos y me convierto en un barco intrépido, osado e invencible en medio de un mar agitado... NICHOLAS SPARKS Si os he referido estos detalles acerca del asteroide B 612 y si os he confiado su número es por la... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY ¡Ay, ese niño, cuánto lo quería! ¡Se parecía muchísimo a mi pobre Henry! ¡Pero había decidi... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Para mí, el azul mediterráneo ya no es bonito. La transparencia de sus aguas, tan valorada por los... JONATHAN FRANZEN —Si yo bajara en busca de tu alma, ni todos los querubines negros juntos podrían apartarme de ti.... SYLVAIN REYNARD Si una mujer ofrece la mejilla para que su novio no la bese en la boca, hasta un ciego puede ver que... ISABEL ALLENDE siguió evocando hasta el amanecer las excelencias del marido, sin reprocharle otra deslealtad que l... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Qué pena que cuando los gobiernos deciden entrar en una guerra no puedan coger a sus ejércitos y p... TAWNI O'DELL Si piensas en positivo ganas, si piensas en negativo pierdes, tan simple como eso. LUZ REFULGENTE.COM.AR Si pudiera descubrir porqué se encasillan, podría averiguar por qué yo no lo hago, por qué me he... JACKSON PEARCE Lo bueno de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber literalmente hasta caerte muerto, como lo hacen los ... CATE TIERNAN Escribir en un diario es una experiencia muy extraña para alguien como yo. No solo porque nunca ant... ANNE FRANK Cuando me besas, Gwendolyn Shepherd, es como si perdiera el contacto con el suelo. No tengo ni idea ... KERSTIN GIER -Hay tres preguntas que toda mujer debe ser capaz de responder afirmativamente antes de comprometers... COLLEEN HOOVER Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas. Pecado mío, alma mía. Lo-li-ta: la punta de la len... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Hay una realidad que demuestra la verdad de un hecho. Porque nuestra memoria y nuestros sentidos son... HARUKI MURAKAMI «Tomamos una aldea... Buscábamos agua. Entramos en un patio donde habíamos divisado un pozo con c... SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Pero la guerra… Son los lápices rojos, las reglas y los compases, los mapas…. Motoristas, órde... ANGEL MARIA DE LERA - Estamos jugando a pedir tres deseos. Los míos son un pastel, un baño caliente y una cama mullida... 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Son como grietas dentro de ti. Como líneas defectuosas en la... JOHN GREEN Quizas te sorprenda que me acuerde con tanto detalle de ese dia, de esas horas (...) A mi tambien me... SáNDOR MáRAI Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla... SáNDOR MáRAI Ese día Naty llegó con más manzanas y otra novedad al trabajo: —Ayer fui a que me leyeran ... MARIAM PARRA Quiero tanto a mi madre... No me importa si es cursi decirlo. Creo que en mi próximo cumpleaños vo... STEPHEN CHBOSKY El dolor, cuando se instala en nuestro cuerpo, no quiere irse. Sobretodo si fue forjado en una relac... LEO BATIC En griego, «regreso» se dice nostos. Algos significa “sufrimiento”. La nostalgia es, pues, el ... MILAN KUNDERA me habia quedado tambien casi por completo sin contactos con quienes anteriormente mehabia permitido... THOMAS BERNHARD Me abrumó la soledad que desprendía su persona y, a un tiempo, creí ver en su interior un abismo ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
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"Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you of... PATRICK ROTHFUSS There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a... PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clea... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you expecting someone to poison you?" he said, somewhat taken aback. "Not really. But it se... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself PATRICK ROTHFUSS Her eyes were dark. Dark as chocolate, dark as coffee, dark as the polished wood of my father’s lu... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re stil... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they could... PATRICK ROTHFUSS After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reachi... PATRICK ROTHFUSS That’s one of the best things about horror movies – they’re not real life. They’re like emot... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enoug... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost s... PATRICK ROTHFUSS One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution tha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the differ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you s... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man h... PATRICK ROTHFUSS When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Cualquiera puede amar algo por algún motivo. Eso es tan fácil como meterse un penique en el bolsil... PATRICK ROTHFUSS —No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game? PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Cuando somos niños, casi nunca pensamos en el futuro. Esa inocencia nos deja libres para disfrutar ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune’s tin, there is a reason. The tone of... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y... PATRICK ROTHFUSS What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it o... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable com... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is tha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some a... PATRICK ROTHFUSS We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Once upon a time,” I began. “There was a little boy born in a little town. He was perfect, or so... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Absence feeds affection. PATRICK ROTHFUSS But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true. PATRICK ROTHFUSS She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the w... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sw... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last h... PATRICK ROTHFUSS He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "e... PATRICK ROTHFUSS No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere PATRICK ROTHFUSS It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossib... PATRICK ROTHFUSS A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as m... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, hea... PATRICK ROTHFUSS The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become co... PATRICK ROTHFUSS After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Teccam explains there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the he... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I... PATRICK ROTHFUSS All the truth in the world is held in stories. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sometimes leaving is the only thing you can do. PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too youn... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look ther... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that think... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self i... PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan... PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink. PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find. PATRICK ROTHFUSS