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My favorite quotes of every book I read. / Mis frases favoritas de los libros que leo.

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“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”

Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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“The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures."

"That's an oversimplification of the issue."

"The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world don't you? I'm terrified of that world and I don't want to live in a that world, and as a mixed race person, I literally don't exist in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Korea Town Los Angeles and as any mixed race person will tell you-- to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.”

Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con la paciencia que solo marcan los siglos. Ya para siempre enrabiadas.”

Cristina Rivera Garza - El Invencible Verano de Liliana

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“Courage is the root of change—and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.”

― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

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“—La patria no es donde uno nace —dijo al servirles. Se quedó callado un momento, y luego prosiguió: —La patria está donde está el corazón, lo sé por experiencia...”

― Javier Moro, El Imperio eres tú

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“Her story—which is the story of a time and land and the indomitable will of a people—is my story; two lives woven together, and like any good story, ours will begin and end and begin again.”

― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

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“La permanencia de usted en el poder es un obstáculo para hacer obra de unión y de reconstrucción”

Pedro J. Fernández, Morir de pie

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“A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.”

― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

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“La comedia nos enseña que la vida no hay que tomarla en serio y la tragedia nos enseña lo que pasa cuando no hacemos caso de lo que la comedia nos enseña.”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, La Ciudad de Vapor: Todos los cuentos

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“The land kept its riches in the dark, sprouting no trees with fruit.” - Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

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“La realidad es que cada uno es responsable de su propia vida. Nacemos con ciertas cartas del naipe, y con ellas jugamos nuestro juego; a algunos les tocan malas cartas y lo pierden todo, pero otros juegan magistralmente con esas mismas cartas y triunfan. El naipe determina quiénes somos: edad, género, raza, familia, nacionalidad, etcétera, y no lo podemos cambiar, sólo podemos usarlo lo mejor posible. En ese juego hay obstáculos y oportunidades, estrategias y trampas.”

-Violeta, Isabel Allende

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“The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.”

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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“La pregunta es esta, mi amigo: ¿hay tantos hijos de puta como uno cree, o la influencia de los hijos de puta sobre sus semejantes es mayor que la de la gente buena, y es por eso que uno cree que son más que los que en realidad son?” - Eduardo Sacheri, La noche de la Usina

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“You don’t want to be hanging around with folks still mad they lost the Civil War.”

Chanelle Benz, The Gone Dead

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La palabra asusta al poder.

Guillermo Arriaga, Salvar el fuego

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“Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Half of a Yellow Sun”