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“¿Sabe lo mejor de los corazones rotos? Que sólo pueden romperse de verdad una vez. Lo demás son rasguños.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Pasamos la mayor parte de nuestra vida soñando, sobre todo cuando estamos despiertos”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Afterwards, once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and those stolen drops of happiness and peace would evaporate.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Un buen mentiroso sabe que la mentira más efectiva es siempre una verdad a la que se le ha sustraído una pieza clave.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Todos tenemos un secreto encerrado bajo llave en el ático del alma. Éste es el mío.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“Aquella noche Mijail me contó que él creía que la vida nos concede a cada uno de nosotros unos escasos momentos de pura felicidad. A veces son sólo dias o semanas. A veces, años. Todo depende de nuestra fortuna. El recuerdo de esos momentos nos acompaña para siempre y se transforma en un país de la memoria al que tratamos de regresar durante el resto de nuestra vida sin consegurilo.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“Para cuando la razón es capaz de entender lo sucedido, las heridas en el corazón ya son demasiado profundas.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“No sabía entonces que el océano del tiempo tarde o temprano nos devuelve los recuerdos que enterramos en él.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some devine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde