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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I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted he...
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The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
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My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfec...
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You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some a...
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Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.
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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking te...
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I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend i...
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I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing...
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You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency t...
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What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it o...
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Practice makes the master.
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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y...
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The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two obj...
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The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'
There was a...
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If we were living in a better age they'd build a temple around a woman like that.
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Adamın ateş rengindeki saçları hakiki bir kızıldı. Gözleri koyu renkli ve dalgındı. Adam p...
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My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)
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Jeder erzählt in seinem eigenen Kopf eine Geschichte über sich. Ununterbrochen. Die ganze Zeit. Un...
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Mit Worten über Worte sprechen zu wollen, das ist, als würde man versuchen, mit einem Bleistift eb...
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Worte sind die blassen Schatten vergessener Namen. Und wie Namen Macht innewohnt, wohnt auch Worten ...
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Jeder von uns hat zweierlei Geist. Einen wachen Geist und einen schlafenden Geist. Unser wacher Geis...
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Verstehst du, Frauen sind wie Feuer, wie Flammen. Manche Frauen sind wie Kerzen, hell und freundlich...
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Tuan volgen oketh ama ~ Lass dich davon nicht verrückt machen. Wörterlich aber bedeutet es: Steck ...
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so höre denn, was zu hören lohnt: es fürchte der weise die nacht ohne mond.
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Cualquiera puede amar algo por algún motivo. Eso es tan fácil como meterse un penique en el bolsil...
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—No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte...
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Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
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Die großartigste Fähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes ist vielleicht die, mit Schmerzen fertig zu we...
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Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
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-Una vez, uno de los maestros de la Universidad me dijo que había siete palabras que hacían que un...
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Las palabras no siempre pueden hacer el trabajo para el que las necesitamos. La música existe para ...
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Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada
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A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.
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I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
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Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar...
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...unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penn...
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Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
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Sólo los sacerdotes y los locos no tienen miedo a nada, y yo nunca me he llevado muy bien con Dios
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If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
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She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous...
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Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
M...
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Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
M...
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Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.
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Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur
Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten.
Yet fa...
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Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order t...
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Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de...
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It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger un...
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I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally c...
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Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language th...
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I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ...
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Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
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You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.
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How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave i...
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Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
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You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite...
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Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
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Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
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A poet is a musician who can't sing.
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The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik...
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Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th...
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For all that she lacked your fire.
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Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the ...
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One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha...
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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan...
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I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact...
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She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t...
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in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th...
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If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you...
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But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With...
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I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
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You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile....
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".
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Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
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She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?"
"It's not very heroic," I said...
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It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth.
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Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ...
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I guess I'm doomed to die loveless.
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Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no...
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She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
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Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?'
'Lucky?...
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Are you hurt?"
"Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
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I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I
summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee...
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