Yo no sé si os habréis dado cuenta, pero a menudo las primeras impresiones son absolutamente equivocadas. Por ejemplo, puedes mirar un cuadro por primera vez y que no te guste nada, pero, después de mirarlo un rato, te puede parecer muy agradable. La primera vez que pruebas el queso gorgonzola te puede parecer demasiado fuerte, pero, cuando eres mayor, es posible que no quieras comer otra cosa que queso gorgonzola.
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Related Gracia…, esa es mi palabra favorita de la iglesia. Un estado del ser, algo por lo que puedes rezar... ELIZABETH SCOTT Mira, las mujeres son como el fuego, como las llamas. Algunas son como velas, luminosas e inofensiva... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Por un momento siento un destello de esperanza al pensar en el último verso del poema: «En alguna ... JOHN GREEN Si pudiera descubrir porqué se encasillan, podría averiguar por qué yo no lo hago, por qué me he... JACKSON PEARCE —¿Y qué ocurre cuando uno muere? —Tampoco yo lo sé. —Entonces, ¿por qué tener m... MATTHEW DICKS -Me has dicho que no dura, que desear ser feliz nunca dura. Así que lo que me haría sentir complet... JACKSON PEARCE Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie e... HARUKI MURAKAMI Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo puesto que de dos modos es la vida, la palabra es un al... 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IRIS MURDOCH Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES No podrás evitar una lluvia que ya ha empezado, pero puedes decidir la vestimenta que te pones. Tam... BYRON ROMERO PEñA icen que a lo largo de nuestra vida tenemos dos grandes amores; uno con el que te casas o vives para... PAULO COELHO Dicho del Profeta Cólera Me pides un consejo. Yo te digo: no te enfurezcas. Fuerte es aqu... IDRIES SHAH -Hay tres preguntas que toda mujer debe ser capaz de responder afirmativamente antes de comprometers... COLLEEN HOOVER —No, la próxima vez que te bese durará un largo, largo tiempo. Y cuando lo hayamos hecho compren... SIMONE ELKELES No puedo hablar de nuestra historia de amor, así que hablaré de matemáticas. No soy matemática, ... JOHN GREEN ¿Ha estado alguna vez enamorado? Horrible, ¿no? Te hace tan vulnerable. Te abre el pecho y el cora... NEIL GAIMAN Pero un tipo de libro que a casi nadie le gusta leer es un libro sobre leyes. Los libros sobre leyes... LEMONY SNICKET —Llegará un día en que todos nosotros estaremos muertos —dije—. Todos nosotros. Llegará un ... JOHN GREEN Lo bueno de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber literalmente hasta caerte muerto, como lo hacen los ... CATE TIERNAN Pero el tiempo pasa, y dura. Y hay un momento en que todo se estanca. Los días dejan de contarse, l... ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE Pero yo sabía que con Adam sí había motivos para armar revuelo. Lo sabía por el calor que recorr... GAYLE FORMAN Espero curarme de ti en unos días. Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Sigu... JAIME SABINES No hay pecas suficientes para todos los «te quiero» que siento cada vez que te miro. Treinta y tre... ALICE KELLEN Es muy triste olvidar a un amigo. Tener un amigo no es cosa de la que puede ufanarse todo el mundo. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Si crees que hay algo que cambiarías en mi forma de ser y dices que me quieres... no puedo decir qu... CARLOS J. CUEVAS Yo quería a mi papá con un amor que nunca volví a sentir hasta que nacieron mis hijos. Cuando los... HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE No te vendas, no te alquiles. Sé un alma libre y vela por lo justo. Es mucho mejor pasar hambre que... BENITO TAIBO Mi amigo M dice que lo irónico de ser un zombie es que todo tiene gracia, pero no puedes sonreír p... ISAAC MARION Te dicen que fue algo fortuito para que no te culpes. Pero lo único que oigo es a ellos diciéndome... KATJA MILLAY Hay una realidad que demuestra la verdad de un hecho. Porque nuestra memoria y nuestros sentidos son... HARUKI MURAKAMI Algunas veces te levantas de la cama y ya no sabes porqué estás luchando. ¿Estás luchando el dí... EMILIO BUESO Es la esperanza lo que me impulsa a seguir; no hay garantías, como si se tratara de una apuesta. Pu... NICHOLAS SPARKS —Tal vez siempre has sido sabio —dijo Jace—. Recuerdo que cuando te pregunté si querías ser ... CASSANDRA CLARE Cuando piensas que nada más puede joderse, la realidad va y te pilla por los huevos con una nueva s... MANEL LOUREIRO Yo te he nombrado reina. Hay más altas que tú, más altas. Hay más puras que tú, más ... PABLO NERUDA Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro... JULIO CORTáZAR — ¿Cómo puedes romper una promesa y quedarte tan campante? — A veces la gente no es consc... JOHN GREEN —En París, es común reconocer a alguien atractivo. El francés no desvía la mirada como otras c... STEPHANIE PERKINS 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 Apenas llegado a Sharax, el fatigado emperador había ido a sentarse a la orilla del mar, frente a l... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Yo te he nombrado reina. Hay más altas que tú, más altas. Hay más puras que tú, más ... PABLO NERUDA Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando... RAINBOW ROWELL …debes darte cuenta de que nos hemos pasado la vida desde pequeños respondiendo a la pregunta ‘... ALBERT ESPINOSA Ya en el escaparate de la librería localizaste la portada con el título que buscabas. Siguiendo es... ITALO CALVINO Mi padre decía que la primera vez que te enamoras te cambia la vida para siempre, y por más que lo... NICHOLAS SPARKS En ese momento me di cuenta de que el anochecer es solo una ilusión, porque el sol sigue estando pr... NICHOLAS SPARKS Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Se puede vivir sin leer, es cierto: pero también se puede vivir sin amar: el argumento hace aguas c... RICARDO MENéNDEZ SALMóN Es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY La música sentimental tiene la especial cualidad de llevarte hacia atrás en el tiempo a la vez que... NICK HORNBY Supongo que eres quien eres por un montón de razones y quizás nunca conozcamos muchas de ellas per... STEPHEN CHBOSKY - El amor debe ser algo que te haga perder la razón -susurró-. Algo que te ate para siempre a unos... ÁNGELES IBIRIKA Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista... JORGE LUIS BORGES Por favor, no te enfades conmigo los días en que no te reconozca. Los dos sabemos que llegarán. Pi... NICHOLAS SPARKS ¿Qué más? Es preciosa. No te cansas de mirarla. No tienes que preocuparte de si es más inteligen... JOHN GREEN -En mis ojos, fuiste mía desde el momento en el que te vi en el Starbucks con tu amiga. En mi mente... MEGAN MAXWELL —Sé que el Señor tiene un propósito para cada uno de nosotros, pero a veces no consigo entender... NICHOLAS SPARKS nose si te pasa a ti .. pero cada dia.. mi mundo como que se detiene por unos segundos.. y mi imagin... DAVID MATEOS Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR —Dijiste que harías lo que fuera por mi. —Yo moriría por ti, pero si me pides que lo hag... LOLO MAYAYA El día en que te conoci, es un día que nunca jamas olvidare, ya que fue escrito por amor en mi cor... PHILIP T.M Uno siempre responde con su vida entera a las preguntas mas importantes. No importa lo que diga, no ... SáNDOR MáRAI - Estoy enamorado de tí, y no estoy en el negocio de negarme el simple placer de decir cosas verdad... JOHN GREEN Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera ... WASHINGTON IRVING Te cuento lo que no me gusta: desde aquí no se ve el óxido, la pintura cayéndose y todo eso, pero... JOHN GREEN -Creo que siempre estamos buscando nuevas piezas. Siempre estamos enteros, más enteros. Entonces, c... JACKSON PEARCE Quizas te sorprenda que me acuerde con tanto detalle de ese dia, de esas horas (...) A mi tambien me... SáNDOR MáRAI me habia quedado tambien casi por completo sin contactos con quienes anteriormente mehabia permitido... THOMAS BERNHARD No fue un beso muy largo, y desde luego no fue uno de esos de película, pero fue maravilloso a su m... NICHOLAS SPARKS Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi... ITALO CALVINO Cómo me gustaría poder retroceder al año pasado y empezar de nuevo. La vida no te permite hacer e... SIMONE ELKELES ¡Ay, ese niño, cuánto lo quería! ¡Se parecía muchísimo a mi pobre Henry! ¡Pero había decidi... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Nunca lo he considerado así, pero ahora tengo la impresión de que era inevitable que me ocurriera.... BANANA YOSHIMOTO Es como saber que eres el centro, lo único que él ve, que solo te ve a ti. Y eso es tan tierno y e... NORA ROBERTS Dolor y muerte. Dos palabras que podrían resumir lo que ocurrió en Hollow Hallows a finales de su ... CARLOS J. EGUREN Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y que disipa momentáneamente la muerte —tambié... MILENA BUSQUETS Cuando yo muera quiero tus manos en mi ojos: quiero la luz y el trigo de tus manos amadas ... PABLO NERUDA El sufrimiento es impuesto a nosotros una y otra vez hasta que un día seríamos valientes sabios am... SUZY KASSEM Cuando pensaba en él muriendo, que admito que no ha sido muchas veces, siempre pensaba en lo que di... JOHN GREEN ¿Sabes por qué te quiero? No sabía que estaba perdido hasta que me encontraste. No sabía lo solo... JAMIE MCGUIRE El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nunca ha existido un esclavo que no escogiera ser esclavo. Puede que la elección fuera entre los gr... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN RECUERDE LA FLOR DE LOTO Las grandes personas siempre se burlaban de los que se sie... SUZY KASSEM Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla... SáNDOR MáRAI Un pájaro y un pez puede que quieran estar juntos, pero ¿dónde vivirían? JACKSON PEARCE ... es que es imposible ser una persona rota o completa. No eres más que una persona. Sólo puedes ... JACKSON PEARCE La felicidad busca la luz, por eso nos parece que el mundo es alegre; pero el sufrimiento se esconde... HERMAN MELVILLE Estar enamorado es lo más maravilloso y lo más terrible que te puede suceder. Sabes que has encont... KIERA CASS - La gente debería tenerle miedo a Ursula Monkton - afirmé - Quizá. Y a qué crees que le ti... NEIL GAIMAN Yo ya no sé que escribir... Es mi forma de saber que ya te olvidé J. PORCUPINE Me dan miedo los gatos blancos porque son igual de malos que los gatos negros, pero no hay manera de... CHUS FERNáNDEZ
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LEMONY SNICKET The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind. LEMONY SNICKET Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with t... LEMONY SNICKET But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. LEMONY SNICKET I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, ... LEMONY SNICKET I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once were so clo... LEMONY SNICKET I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else your co-star, per... LEMONY SNICKET It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, an... LEMONY SNICKET I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. 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LEMONY SNICKET Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thi... LEMONY SNICKET I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat... LEMONY SNICKET An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, lon... LEMONY SNICKET You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you th... LEMONY SNICKET Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact. LEMONY SNICKET It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happine... LEMONY SNICKET It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling ... LEMONY SNICKET The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, an... LEMONY SNICKET Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes yo... LEMONY SNICKET It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively.... LEMONY SNICKET I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and a... LEMONY SNICKET Of course I'm trying to trick you!" Olaf cried. "That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everybody... LEMONY SNICKET Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they... LEMONY SNICKET Aha! " My chaperone looked at me like I should aha! back, but all I could m... LEMONY SNICKET Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down o... LEMONY SNICKET There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If... LEMONY SNICKET It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It l... LEMONY SNICKET But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed perso... LEMONY SNICKET They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I... LEMONY SNICKET It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway.... LEMONY SNICKET Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except p... LEMONY SNICKET It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn’t know... LEMONY SNICKET The map is not the territory. LEMONY SNICKET I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else. LEMONY SNICKET Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument. LEMONY SNICKET You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I... LEMONY SNICKET I thought maybe if I stared hard enough, I could see the lights of the city I had left so very far b... LEMONY SNICKET The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that librarie... LEMONY SNICKET There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap,... LEMONY SNICKET I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau... LEMONY SNICKET There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frigh... LEMONY SNICKET Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because chi... LEMONY SNICKET So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. I... LEMONY SNICKET The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drif... LEMONY SNICKET A mystery is solved with a story. LEMONY SNICKET I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ... LEMONY SNICKET You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage ... LEMONY SNICKET Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will e... LEMONY SNICKET There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of pap... LEMONY SNICKET Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it befo... LEMONY SNICKET They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire... LEMONY SNICKET How clever of you to figure that out,' said a voice at the top of the stairs, and Violet, and Klaus ... LEMONY SNICKET I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do... LEMONY SNICKET There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day. LEMONY SNICKET being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone... LEMONY SNICKET There are people in the world who care about automobiles, and there are people who couldn't care les... LEMONY SNICKET Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would s... LEMONY SNICKET There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curiou... LEMONY SNICKET It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of ... LEMONY SNICKET The three of us stood there for a minute. I don’t know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabi... LEMONY SNICKET When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you. LEMONY SNICKET I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, ... LEMONY SNICKET They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. LEMONY SNICKET The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they'r... LEMONY SNICKET I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, t... LEMONY SNICKET Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get yo... LEMONY SNICKET Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books. LEMONY SNICKET It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger. LEMONY SNICKET Nobody should feel pain all by themselves. LEMONY SNICKET There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matt... LEMONY SNICKET It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought,... LEMONY SNICKET