Pensamos que somos invencibles porque lo somos
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NORA ROBERTS Creo que a veces no sentimos todo lo que somos, pero los demás sí lo notan.
KRISTIN CASHORE Somos lo que hemos leído por el contrario seremos la ausencia que los libros dejaron en nuestras vi...
BENITO TAIBO A veces, nuestro futuro viene impuesto por quienes somos, y no por lo que queremos.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Creo que somos más grandes que la suma de nuestras partes.
JOHN GREEN El mundo no se divide en gente buena y mala; todos tenemos luz y oscuridad dentro de nosotros, lo qu...
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EMIL M. CIORAN Incapaces nosotros, si lo somos de agradecer el esfuerzo. Nuestra diversión consistirá en aceptar ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Vosotros, las personas, tenéis nombres porque no sabéis quiénes sois. Nosotros sabemos quiénes s...
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RICHARD DAWKINS (BIóLOGO) El pasado siempre tiene importancia. No hay que olvidar las cosas que hiciste en el pasado, porque s...
CASSANDRA CLARE Todos somos lo mismo; todos remamos en la misma galera. En nuestras muchas reencarnaciones, hemos si...
BRIAN L. WEISS Me gusta leer por lo que nos gusta hacerlo a mucha gente… porque al abrir los libros siempre encon...
ELíSABET BENAVENT El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Mi amigo M dice que lo irónico de ser un zombie es que todo tiene gracia, pero no puedes sonreír p...
ISAAC MARION Epitáfio /J.L.Borges (?)
Já somos a ausência que seremos.
O pó elementar que nos ignor...
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE - Nosotros..., en fin, podríamos ser amigos, ¿no crees?
- También podríamos ser raros ejemp...
NEIL GAIMAN Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY ¿Por qué me lo cuentas ahora?
-Porque no quiero que olvides lo distintas que son nuestras cir...
SUZANNE COLLINS Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un...
JAY ASHER Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz...
GEORGE ORWELL Es preciosa. No te cansas de mirarla. No tienes que preocuparte de si es más inteligente que tú, p...
JOHN GREEN ¿Quiere que vaya a la iglesia y me confiese? ¿Cree que los detectives nos rebajamos a hablar con s...
PABLO DE SANTIS La razón por la que nos duele tanto separarnos es porque nuestras almas están enlazadas. Quizá si...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Lo que opinen o dejen de opinar las masas se considera falto de importancia. Se les puede conceder l...
GEORGE ORWELL Lo que más deseo es estar a tu lado y ayudarte. Y, si nos hace falta una eternidad, mucho mejor, po...
LAINI TAYLOR Todo lo que ves no es cierto, pero todo lo que sientes hace que sea cierto lo que ves
ED HERNANDEZ Le rodeó la cintura con un brazo, con un nudo en la garganta.
—¿De veras?
—De veras....
NALINI SINGH Dos gruesos gerontes de las heladas tierras del norte sostienen sus cartas de vinos desde una de las...
MARTíN ZEKE OCHOA Me avergüenza sentir miedo, incluso en sueños, porque eso me revela que aún deseo estar vivo. El ...
RAFAEL BALANZá Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y están disgustados, no les diré que la gente se muere de hambr...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Y la moraleja de esta historia es que no recuerdas lo que pasó. Lo que recuerdas se convierte en lo...
JOHN GREEN El margen sabe lo que el centro olvida, seguramente porque la memoria es el poder del vencido. El tr...
REYES MATE Pero yo sabía que con Adam sí había motivos para armar revuelo. Lo sabía por el calor que recorr...
GAYLE FORMAN No quiero que hagan lo que yo quiero, solo quiero que me den lo que deseo
ED HERNANDEZ Estoy en este estacionamiento pensando que nunca he estado tan lejos de casa, y aquí esta la chica ...
JOHN GREEN Os gatos não têm nomes - respondeu.
Não? - perguntou Coraline.
Não - respondeu o gato....
NEIL GAIMAN —Qué va. —Hablaba en serio. Jess lo supo por su mirada—. Toda esa historia de Jesús es realm...
KATHERINE PATERSON La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser cre...
UMBERTO ECO Quería que lo llamara. Quería que lo echara de menos.
JOHN GREEN No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.
QUINO !VIVEEE ;;OBRAA DE TAL MANERA QUE CUANDO TE TOQUEE CONOCER A TU CREADOR, LO PUEDAS MIRAR FRENTE A FR...
DAISY M.ABREU_GENAO Este es un homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A las ficha...
WALTER ISAACSON Todo lo que sabemos del amor es que el amor es todo lo que hay.
EMILY DICKINSON Yo soy yo y tú eres tú, todos los de allá fuera son ellos. Y todos somos diferentes e igualmente ...
JENNY DOWNHAM Mas uma vez o senhor me disse: "Que Deus a abençoe! Que Deus a perdoe!" E se foi capaz de me dizer ...
CHARLES DICKENS No sabía lo que iba a pasar, pero sería mejor que lo que dejaba atrás. - Harry Potter
J.K. ROWLING Las mentes necesitan lo inusual, porque lo inusual tiene el poder de sacudir la mente!
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ISAAC NEWTON He ido encontrando tesoros en lugares que no queria buscar. He estado escuchando sabiduría de bocas...
SUZY KASSEM Más o menos, mi muchacho querido, todas la palabras humanas acaban siendo un embuste; donde relativ...
HERMANN HESSE Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.
ERNESTO SABATO El señor Traseronian miró al público.
-"Más amables de lo necesario" - repitió -. Qué fra...
PALACIO R. J. Una novela no es buena ni por su contenido ni por como lo cuenta -dos supersticiones-, sino porque s...
ÁLVARO ENRIGUE Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY —Dijiste que harías lo que fuera por mi.
—Yo moriría por ti, pero si me pides que lo hag...
LOLO MAYAYA No puedo resistirme a ti —dijo Alex con suavidad. —¿Lo sabes, no? Y ya me he cansado de fingir ...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS — ¿Cómo puedes romper una promesa y quedarte tan campante?
— A veces la gente no es consc...
JOHN GREEN ...somos nosotros, los psicoanalistas, quienes en el silencio de la escucha imaginamos mentalmente, ...
J.-D. (JUAN-DAVID) NASIO Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser enten...
ISAAC ASIMOV El hombre tortura y mata porque es lo suyo. Le gusta.
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE Realmente no lo entiendes, ¿verdad?. No quiero tener todo lo que deseo. Nadie lo quiere, no de verd...
NEIL GAIMAN Cada quien es lo que es, por lo que la vida le haya hecho ver y aprender
ED HERNANDEZ A veces una mirada hacia atrás vale más que una hacia adelante, eres lo que has vivido, y serás p...
ED HERNANDEZ Toma de la vida todo lo que te dé, sea lo que sea, siempre que te interese y te pueda dar cierto pl...
DIEGO RIVERA ¿Sabes por qué te quiero? No sabía que estaba perdido hasta que me encontraste. No sabía lo solo...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Ella, sin duda, era la encarnación de la belleza que encontraba en la Tierra. Tenía que pasar por ...
ANAGABY ARRIETA Merece lo que sueñas.
OCTAVIO PAZ Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES ¿Qué más? Es preciosa. No te cansas de mirarla. No tienes que preocuparte de si es más inteligen...
JOHN GREEN Lo que pasó es lo de menos. Es una novela, y lo que ocurre en ellas da lo mismo y se olvida, una ve...
JAVIER MARíAS Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi...
HERMANN HESSE -¿Te preparas para otra guerra?
-Oh, ahora no. Ahora estamos en ese dulce periodo en el que to...
SUZANNE COLLINS El universo conspira a favor de los que lo mueven. Y ésos son los que lo paran. ¿Tú quieres mover...
ALBERT ESPINOSA Sólo quiero que se haga justicia. Nada más. En toda mi vida he pensado que lo que quería era veng...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Nunca lo he considerado así, pero ahora tengo la impresión de que era inevitable que me ocurriera....
BANANA YOSHIMOTO - No creo, señor, que tenga usted derecho a darme órdenes simplemente porque es mayor que yo o por...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha
acontecido,...
ARISTOTLE Es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vi...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Es mejor que alguien busque en ti, lo que tú quieres que busquen de ti
ED HERNANDEZ …ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a l...
ALMUDENA GRANDES La felicidad no consiste en conseguir aquello de lo que careces y anhelas sino en aprender a saber v...
CARLOS J. CUEVAS creen en Dios sólo porque ignoran que hace mucho tiempo que Dios ha dejado de creer en ellos.
MARIO BENEDETTI -...tiene frío porque se encuentra sola; no hay contacto que despierte el fuego que tiene dentro. E...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro...
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JOHN GREEN It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREEN Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth,...
JOHN GREEN [I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, beca...
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing eve...
JOHN GREEN What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
JOHN GREEN I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a w...
JOHN GREEN You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...
JOHN GREEN You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
JOHN GREEN The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...
JOHN GREEN It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
JOHN GREEN I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. H...
JOHN GREEN I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
JOHN GREEN And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
JOHN GREEN -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's wha...
JOHN GREEN Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
JOHN GREEN You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREEN What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREEN Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...
JOHN GREEN What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
JOHN GREEN Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
JOHN GREEN For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and too...
JOHN GREEN We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
JOHN GREEN I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
JOHN GREEN Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
JOHN GREEN The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tighteni...
JOHN GREEN Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
JOHN GREEN You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
JOHN GREEN But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
JOHN GREEN How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
JOHN GREEN AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
JOHN GREEN The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
JOHN GREEN I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
JOHN GREEN You can't just make me different and then leave
JOHN GREEN She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
JOHN GREEN But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN