Book List

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” 

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"It was just as he was draining the last warming sip of bourbon that he realized the one ghastly mistake he had made, and knew exactly who would almost inevitably detect it." 

― Mary Higgins Clark, While My Pretty One Sleeps

"Maybe we only have a finite amount of love to give. We're born with our portion, and if we love and are not loved enough in return, it's depleted." 

― Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

― Prof. Montezanti, Sonnet 138

"'Es hora de apropiarnos de Shakespeare, ya estamos maduros, podemos hacerlo', considera el hombre detrás de la aventura atrevida de acriollar sus 154 sonetos, Miguel Ángel Montezanti, traductor, poeta, docente de la UNLP e investigador". 

― Miguel Ángel Montezanti, Sólo Vos sos Vos

"'The boys were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married. [...] [My mother] thought there were no better-reared daughters. 'They're perfect,' she was frequently heard to say. 'Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer.'"  

― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."  

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"June always said that most people bit off more than they could chew, but August chewed more than she bit off. June loved to tease August about the way she pondered things, how one minute she was talking to you and the next she had slipped into a private world where she turned her thoughts over and over, digesting the stuff most people would choke on. I wanted to say, teach me how to do that. Teach me how to take all this in."  

― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps."

― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train