«Accidenti, hai un buon odore. Cos’è, comunque? Sembra un po’ come...» Diede un’altra annusata dubbiosa. «Biscotti con gocce di cioccolato appena usciti dal forno. Ho lo stesso odore per te?» «No.» Rory scosse la testa con decisione. Casey sembrò un po’ spiazzato. «Oh. Beh, okay.» «No,» sospirò Rory, «profumi di zucchero filato.»
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MORDECAI RICHLER Ho guadagnato una vita, un biglietto per la morte, e viaggio ancora. In certi moment... ORIANA FALLACI Amor, cuántos caminos hasta llegar a un beso, qué soledad errante hasta tu compañía! PABLO NERUDA No se me importa un pito que las mujeres tengan los senos como magnolias o como pasas de higo;<... OLIVERIO GIRONDO Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritt... UMBERTO ECO Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro... JULIO CORTáZAR Era come se avessi tremato per tutta la vita, a causa di una cronica corrente sotterranea di paura. ... PHILIP K. DICK ...Quando Isabelle alzò lo sguardo ebbe l’impressione che il cuore le si fermasse. Stava risalend... MARTA SAVARINO Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo puesto que de dos modos es la vida, la palabra es un al... PABLO NERUDA Bisbigliò: «Perché sei qui, Layla?». «Sono qui... sono qui perché è qui che sono felice, qui ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Nihal seppe che quella notte sarebbe diventata un guerriero. Si sciolse la lunga treccia blu, c... LICIA TROISI Una avalancha comienza con un guijarro. Un bosque con una semilla. Y solo se necesita una palabra pa... JAY KRISTOFF Vorrei poter fermare il tempo e vivere così per sempre" Di solito questi riferimenti al suo im... SUZANNE COLLINS -¿Te preparas para otra guerra? -Oh, ahora no. Ahora estamos en ese dulce periodo en el que to... SUZANNE COLLINS RECUERDE LA FLOR DE LOTO Las grandes personas siempre se burlaban de los que se sie... SUZY KASSEM Gridavamo siamo angeli, possiamo lanciarci senza distruggerci, abbiamo le ali nei muscoli, siamo spa... 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PRIMO LEVI —Ya no te amo —susurró ella. —No te amo en absoluto. A él se le puso un nudo en la garg... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS La solitudine non è mai con voi; è sempre senza di voi, e soltanto possibile con un estraneo attor... LUIGI PIRANDELLO Vorrei, per essere proprio tranquillo, che tu non ti spaventassi o ti turbassi troppo qualunque cond... ANTONIO GRAMSCI Cosas detestables Cuando uno tiene prisa por salir, llega alguien de visita y se queda ha... SEI SHōNAGON Ombrosa non c’è più. Guardando il cielo sgombro, mi domando se è davvero esistita. Quel frastag... ITALO CALVINO Per qualche motivo, tutto sommato, lo avrebbe di nuovo voluto neonato. Squittente e catastrofico, e ... SILVANA DE MARI Ciononostante, vi fu uno spazio di un paio di secondi durante i quali l'espressione dei suoi occhi a... GEORGE ORWELL E l’amore guardò il tempo e rise, perché sapeva di non averne bisogno. Finse di morire per un gi... 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MAE WEST He who hesitates is a damned fool. MAE WEST Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. MAE WEST I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m... REBECCA WEST I'm single because I was born that way. MAE WEST I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign. MAE WEST I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. MAE WEST She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent... REBECCA WEST A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. MAE WEST If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. JESSAMYN WEST My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,... MAE WEST When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity. MAE WEST I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the p... REBECCA WEST To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how ... JESSAMYN WEST Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers j... REBECCA WEST All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent di... REBECCA WEST It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. MAE WEST Numbers constitute the only universal language. NATHANAEL WEST Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. REBECCA WEST Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now ju... MAE WEST Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. JERRY WEST When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before. 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REBECCA WEST I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. MAE WEST I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. MAE WEST You're never too old to become younger MAE WEST Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. MAE WEST Sex is an emotion in motion MAE WEST It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. MAE WEST Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. MAE WEST I speak two languages, Body and English. MAE WEST You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing MAE WEST The best way to behave is to misbehave. MAE WEST The best way to hold a man is in your arms. MAE WEST You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. MAE WEST A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love. MAE WEST When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. MAE WEST You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ... MAE WEST I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it MAE WEST To err is human - but it feels divine MAE WEST