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“el infierno de los vivos no es algo que será; hay uno, es aquél que existe ya aquí, el infierno que habitamos todos los días, que formamos estando juntos. Dos maneras hay de no sufrirlo. La primera es fácil para muchos: aceptar el infierno y volverse parte de él hasta el punto de no verlo más. La segunda es peligrosa y exige atención y aprendizaje continuos: buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es infierno, y hacerlo durar, y darle espacio.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“No puede decirse con certeza que uno haya verdaderamente amado a una ciudad hasta que no se ha decidido a abandonarla. Sólo entonces es posible empezar a recorrerla en la memoria e intuir que esa ciudad que despedimos tiene las dimensiones de una herida.”
― Rafael Toriz, La distorsión

“One day I'm going to use this experience in my memoirs [...]. Is when a famous person writes about their life and describes the bad stuff they went through. It's important to have enough bad stuff or it just seems like bragging, and no one likes that. So messing up today that's really helpful, because is shows that I'm human.”
― John August, Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire

“90% magic, 10% poliester.”
― Obert Skye, Magic Required

“Knowledge is a package that time unwraps”
― Obert Skye, Magic Required

“You don't run away from problems, you run towards solutions.”
― Obert Skye, Magic Required

“The true sadness of reality it's that it is forgotten that magic is everywhere. We buried it with worry and tedium because deep inside we all know it takes strength to wield a wand. It takes energy and belief to step back from the fog of reality and recognize the wonder in almost everything. You're resisting what is inevitable, and when you finally figure this all out things will be both heavier and more fantastic.”
― Obert Skye, Magic Required

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett , The Secret Garden

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

"Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“I've stolen a garden. It isn't mine, it isn't anybody's. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it. Perhaps everything is dead in it already, I don't know. I don't care, I don't care. Nobody has any right to take it from me when I care about it and they don't. They're letting it die, all shut in by itsellf!”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“I don't want to be queer, and I'm not going to be. I'll shall stop being queer if I go every day to the garden. There is magic in there...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Of course there must be lots of magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make it happen.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It's something, it can be nothing. I don't know its name, so I call it magic. I've never seen a sunrise, but Mary and Dickon have, and for what they tell me, I'm sure that is magic, too. Something pushes it up and draws it. Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something were pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden--in all the places. The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I am going to make the scientific experiment of trying to get some and put it in myself and make it push and draw me and make me strong. I don't know how to do it but I think that if you keep thinking about it and calling it perhaps it will come. Perhaps that is the first baby way to get it. When I was going to try to stand that first time Mary kept saying to herself as fast as she could, `You can do it! You can do it!' and I did. I had to try myself at the same time, of course, but her Magic helped me-and so did Dickon's. Every morning and evening and as often in the daytime as I can remember I am going to say, 'Magic is in me! Magic is making me well! I am going to be as strong as Dickon, as strong as Dickon!' And you must all do it, too. That is my experiment Will you help, Ben Weatherstaff?”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any other century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they see it can be done- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of these things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live."

The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1911”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Cuando llegó el día de la partida, el zorro dijo:
-Voy a llorar.
-Yo no quería causarte daño, pero tú quisiste que te domesticara.
-Así es -dijo el zorro.
-Pero vas a llorar -dijo el Principito.
-Sí -volvió a decir el zorro.
-Al final, no ganaste nada.
-Gané -dijo el zorro-. He ganado a causa del color del trigo. Ahora es mucho más agradable.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

“Los hombres han olvidado esta verdad -dijo el zorro-. Pero tú no debes olvidarla. Eres responsable para siempre de lo que has domesticado. Eres responsable de tu rosa...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“No hay nada que entender", dijo el farolero. "La consigna es la consigna [...]. Mi trabajo es terrible. Antes era razonable. Apagaba el farol por la mañana y lo prendía por la tarde. Tenía el resto del día para descansar y todo el resto de la noche para dormir".
"¿Y? ¿Cambiaron la consigna?"
"No. Esa es la tragedia. La consigna no ha cambiado, pero el planeta sí".”
― Antoine Saint Exupéry

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Because if I had learned anything, I had learned enough to know that a god in pain is dangerous.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Mortals may age, but the gods are prisoners of their own infantile whimsies, never capable of change and never knowing what it is to love because they dare not risk the suffering of loss.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne