Hell is knowing your fate and knowing there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
He closed his eyes and inhaled once again. And when he opened them, he peered over at her like a wounded dragon. You are looking at a murderer.
El amor hace que lo veamos todo hermoso.
—Si por cualquier razón nos separamos, quiero que me esperes. Te encontraré, te lo prometo.
—Si es tan idiota como para pensar que la belleza está en la piel y no en el corazón, espero que muera pronto y libre a la humanidad de su estupidez.
—No creo en los cuentos de hadas —susurró ella.—Me gustaría lograr que volvieras a creer. —Se inclinó y le besó la frente.—La realidad es mejor que la fantasía, Gabriel.—No si convertimos la fantasía...
—Me has atrapado, Cassita —susurró—. Y nunca había tenido menos ganas de escapar. 44 La madrugada vertía la luz del sol a través del balcón del dormitorio, derramándola sobre el rostro de Rave...
—Esto es distinto.—Tienes razón. Es distinto, porque aunque podría exigir justicia, declino hacerlo. Citando una de mis novelas favoritas: «A Dios respetuosamente devuelvo el billete».
– Só um beijinho inocente. Palavra de escoteiro.– Você é escoteiro?– Não.
You are the only ray of hope I’ve seen since 1274. You’re the only one who has caused my heart to beat again.
You are the light that shines in my darkness.
Ya soy mayorcita para ir insultando a la gente, se lo merezcan o no. Ya no estamos en la guardería.
Who would be so cruel?You ask this question after the Shoah? After countless instances of genocide? Human beings can be incredibly cruel.
We don't have to forget the past, he whispered. But we can make the future better.
This was the joy that the world sought--sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one. A picture of love and deep satisfaction. An ecstatic glimpse of the beatific...
Tal vez se había vuelto pacifista precisamente por los abusos sufridos. Tal vez las cicatrices que tenía en el alma le recordaban el daño que las palabras y las acciones podían provocar en los demás.
So much for the justice that governs the universe. Dante was a fool to believe such myths. Some of us are damned by the actions of others and exiled to hell through no fault of our own.
She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn’t received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once...
Sex is properly understood to be not only physical, but spiritual—an ecstatic union of two bodies and two souls, meant to mimic the joy and ecstasy of union with the Divine in Paradise. Two bodies joi...
Oh, Psyche. ‘Fortune doth menace unto thee imminent danger, wherof I wish thee greatly to beware. . . . thou shalt purchase to mee great sorrow, and to thyself utter destruction. . . . Beware that ye...